REGION AND NATION IN AMERICAN HISTORIES OF RACE AND SLAVERYOCTOBER 6–9, 2016 • MOUNT VERNON, VIRGINIA
Chair: Antonio Bly, Appalachian State University
David Gellman, DePauw University, “Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: The Founders and Slavery—A Regionalist Revision”
Sarah Gronningsater, California Institute of Technology, “A Generational Perspective of the Long Emancipation”
Paul Polgar, University of Mississippi, “Freedom Local: Enacting Black Liberty in the Early National Mid-Atlantic”
Comment: Manisha Sinha, University of Massachusetts Amherst
