REGION AND NATION IN AMERICAN HISTORIES OF RACE AND SLAVERYOCTOBER 6–9, 2016 • MOUNT VERNON, VIRGINIA
Chair: Richard Bell, University of Maryland
Alexandra Finley, College of William & Mary (Ph.D. 2016), “Finding the Domestic in the Domestic Slave Trade: Women’s Labor in the Richmond Slave Market”
Stephanie Jones-Rogers, University of California, Berkeley, “Mistresses of the Market: White Women and the Nineteenth-Century Domestic Slave Trade”
Shauna Sweeney, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, “Market Marronnage: Enslaved Women Traders in Nineteenth-Century Jamaica”
Comment: Jessica Marie Johnson, John Hopkins University