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REGION AND NATION IN AMERICAN HISTORIES OF RACE AND SLAVERYOCTOBER 6–9, 2016 • MOUNT VERNON, VIRGINIA

Chair: Scott Casper, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Jared Hardesty, Western Washington University, “A Slave Society, Society with Slaves, or Something Else?: Atlantic Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Boston”

Tessa Murphy, Syracuse University, “Laboring ‘beyond the line’: Slavery in the Neutral Islands of the Southern Caribbean c. 1700–1762”

Steve Lenik, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, “The Jesuits and Plantation Slavery Beyond the Region: Comparing Maryland and Martinique”

Comment: Maria Bollettino, Framingham State University