REGION AND NATION IN AMERICAN HISTORIES OF RACE AND SLAVERYOCTOBER 6–9, 2016 • MOUNT VERNON, VIRGINIA
Chair: Caree Ann Marie Banton, University of Arkansas
Brooke Newman, Virginia Commonwealth University, “Filii Nullius: Slavery, Lineage, and the Legal Foundations of Race in the Anglo Atlantic”
Ruth Hill, Vanderbilt University, “The Matter of Race in the Americas”
Gideon Mailer, University of Minnesota, Duluth, “The Scottish Enlightenment and American Slavery, 1700–1800”
Comment: Simon Newman, University of Glasgow
