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Conference Freedom, Race, and Bondage: A Conference in Honor of David Brion Davis May 7-9, 2002 Yale University All events will take place in Room 211, Hall of Graduate Studies. Conference Schedule Tuesday, May 7 7 p.m. Keynote Address: Orlando Patterson Wednesday, May 8 9-9:15 a.m. Welcome: Jon Butler, Robert Forbes, Steven Mintz, John Stauffer 9:30-11:30 Rethinking Slavery Chair: Stanley Engerman Presenters: Ira Berlin, "Rethinking Slavery in the 19th Century South" Paul Finkelman, "The Significance and Persistence of Proslavery Thought" Sharon Hartman Strom, "Labor and Race in the Caribbean Basin: Imagining a Post-Slavery World" Commentators: Peter Kolchin David Eltis Lunch 1-3:00 p.m. Antislavery: Images and Ideology Chair: Richard Blackett Presenters: Christopher Brown, "Malachy Postlethwayt of the Royal Africa Company: Mercantilist, Imperialist, Early Antislavery Theorist" Jonathan Glickstein, "The Chattelization of Northern Whites: William Goodell and an Evolving Abolitionist Warning" Peter Hinks, "Timothy Dwight, Slavery, and Race" Margaret M.R. Kellow, "The Oriental Imaginary: Constructions of Enslavement in Female Abolitionist Discourse" Casey King, "Changing Notion of Sin and the Religious Origins of Anti-Slavery Thought" Commentator: Richard Blackett 3:30-5:30 p.m. Antislavery and Race: Social History and Political Processes Chair: Joan Shelley Rubin Presenters: Iver Bernstein, "A Cancer on the Body Politic: Conceptions of Constitutional Evil and Remedy in the Era Before Slave Emancipation" Robert Bonner, "White Skin and Southern Blood: Confederate Racialism in Comparative Perspective" Richard Fox, "Performing Emancipation" David Waldstreicher, "Benjamin Franklin, Religion, and Early Antislavery" Commentator: Catherine Clinton Dinner Thursday, May 9 9-9:30 a.m. David Brion Davis as Teacher, Colleague, and Scholar Nancy Cott Alan Trachtenberg 9:30-11:30 a.m. Gender and Race Since the Civil War Chair: Eric Foner Presenters: Ellen Dwyer, "How Race and Gender Shaped Responses to Psychiatric and Neurological Problems" Barbara Savage, "African American Religion and African American Politics in the Early 20th Century" Glenn Wallach, "Women, Scandals, and the Press" Commentators: William Forbath, Michael Salman Lunch 1-3:00 p.m. Religion and the Ambiguities of Reform Chair: Seymour Drescher Presenters: Edward Balleinsen, "Commercial Moralism, Bankruptcy Law, and the Ambiguities of Economic Freedom within Antebellum Reform Movements" Leslie Butler, "The Anglo-American Reform Impulse and the Liberal Critique of Empire" Laura Mitchell, "Comparing Martyrs: The Religious Language Surrounding the Execution of John Brown and the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln" Commentator: Lewis Perry 3:30-5:30 p.m. Confrontations with Evil Chair: Jackson Lears Presenters: Susanna Blumenthal, "The Apprehension of Evil in Nineteenth-Century American Jurisprudence" Elliott Gorn, "John Dillinger and the Great Depression" Jack Holl, "Dwight D. Eisenhower: the Exegetical President" Paula Kane, "The Theme of Counter-Subversion" Randy Roth, "'Twin' Evils?: The Relationship between Racial Slavery and Homicide" Commentators: James Brewer Stewart 7 p.m. Concluding Banquet Mia Bay David Blight Lesley Herrmann Clyde Spillenger Steven Wilf