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The Antislavery Bulwark: The Antislavery Origins of the Civil War
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WHERE:
The Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue
ROOM:
1201: Elebash Recital Hall
WHEN:
October 17, 2014: 6:30 PM
ADMISSION:
Free; first-come, first-served
Description
Bringing together the best new scholarship in the field, “The Antislavery Bulwark: The Antislavery Origins of the Civil War” points toward an important new way of thinking about the origins of the Civil War. The conference considers how the activities of antislavery Americans ultimately contributed to Southern secession and war. It places less emphasis on the radical abolitionist “vanguard” than on the broader antislavery movement, especially antislavery politics, stressing the common objects and premises of an often divided crusade. The larger intellectual goal is to reaffirm the strength and significance of antislavery politics in the early national and antebellum eras. Topics include the origins and significance of the Somerset case, the legal and political ramifications of the “first emancipation,” and antislavery politics in the new nation from the Missouri Crisis to the fugitive slave crisis of the 1850s and the election of 1860.
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE:
Friday, October 17
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm:
Conference Introduction: Chase Robinson, President, CUNY Graduate Center
Keynote Address: David W. Blight, Yale University
Saturday, October 18
9 am – 9:15 am:
Introduction: James Oakes, CUNY Graduate Center
9:15 am – 10:30 am:
SESSION ONE: ANTISLAVERY IN THE REVOLUTIONARY AND EARLY NATIONAL PERIODS
Presiding: Christopher Brown, Columbia University
The Making of an Antislavery Generation: The Children of Gradual Emancipation, Antislavery Legal Culture, and the “General” Abolition of 1827
John Blanton, CUNY Graduate Center
The Making of an Antislavery Generation: The Children of Gradual Emancipation and Early American Legal Culture
Sarah Levine-Gronningsater, McNeil Center for Early American Studies/California Institute of Technology
The Origins of the Cordon of Freedom: The Radicalism of Rufus King’s Missouri Crisis Speeches
David Gary, Yale University
10:45 am – 12 pm:
SESSION TWO: ABOLITIONISM AND ANTISLAVERY POLITICS IN THE ANTEBELLUM ERA
Presiding: Amy Dru Stanley, University of Chicago
The Slave Power Argument and Abolitionist Partisan Politics
Corey Brooks, York College of Pennsylvania
Garrisonian Abolitionists and the Half-Way House of Antislavery Politics
Caleb McDaniel, Rice University
Absolute and Unqualified Divorce: Salmon P. Chase and the Radicalism of the Antislavery Platform
Joe Murphy, CUNY Graduate Center
12 pm – 1:30 pm: Break for Lunch
1:30 pm – 2:45 pm:
SESSION THREE: POLITICAL CRISIS OF THE 1850s
Presiding: Sean Wilentz, Princeton University
The Underground Railroad Reconsidered: Antebellum Politics and the Challenges of Counting Fugitive Slaves and Their Allies
Matthew Pinsker, Dickinson College
The Van and the Rear: Abolition and the Politics of Antislavery
Manisha Sinha, University of Massachusetts Amherst
The King’s Cure: Lincoln, State Abolition, and the Origins of the Thirteenth Amendment
James Oakes, CUNY Graduate Center
3 pm – 4:30 pm:
PANEL DISCUSSION: IMPLICATIONS
Moderator: Catherine Clinton, University of Texas San Antonio
Speakers:
Eric Foner, Columbia University
James McPherson, Princeton University
James Brewer Stewart, Macalester College
NO RESERVATIONS REQUIRED. For more information, call 212-817-8215.
- See more at: http://www.gc.cuny.edu/Public-Programming/Calendar/Detail?id=26955#sthash.492T7TJ6.dpuf
Details
WHERE:
The Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue
ROOM:
1201: Elebash Recital Hall
WHEN:
October 17, 2014: 6:30 PM
ADMISSION:
Free; first-come, first-served
Description
Bringing together the best new scholarship in the field, “The Antislavery Bulwark: The Antislavery Origins of the Civil War” points toward an important new way of thinking about the origins of the Civil War. The conference considers how the activities of antislavery Americans ultimately contributed to Southern secession and war. It places less emphasis on the radical abolitionist “vanguard” than on the broader antislavery movement, especially antislavery politics, stressing the common objects and premises of an often divided crusade. The larger intellectual goal is to reaffirm the strength and significance of antislavery politics in the early national and antebellum eras. Topics include the origins and significance of the Somerset case, the legal and political ramifications of the “first emancipation,” and antislavery politics in the new nation from the Missouri Crisis to the fugitive slave crisis of the 1850s and the election of 1860.
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE:
Friday, October 17
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm:
Conference Introduction: Chase Robinson, President, CUNY Graduate Center
Keynote Address: David W. Blight, Yale University
Saturday, October 18
9 am – 9:15 am:
Introduction: James Oakes, CUNY Graduate Center
9:15 am – 10:30 am:
SESSION ONE: ANTISLAVERY IN THE REVOLUTIONARY AND EARLY NATIONAL PERIODS
Presiding: Christopher Brown, Columbia University
The Making of an Antislavery Generation: The Children of Gradual Emancipation, Antislavery Legal Culture, and the “General” Abolition of 1827
John Blanton, CUNY Graduate Center
The Making of an Antislavery Generation: The Children of Gradual Emancipation and Early American Legal Culture
Sarah Levine-Gronningsater, McNeil Center for Early American Studies/California Institute of Technology
The Origins of the Cordon of Freedom: The Radicalism of Rufus King’s Missouri Crisis Speeches
David Gary, Yale University
10:45 am – 12 pm:
SESSION TWO: ABOLITIONISM AND ANTISLAVERY POLITICS IN THE ANTEBELLUM ERA
Presiding: Amy Dru Stanley, University of Chicago
The Slave Power Argument and Abolitionist Partisan Politics
Corey Brooks, York College of Pennsylvania
Garrisonian Abolitionists and the Half-Way House of Antislavery Politics
Caleb McDaniel, Rice University
Absolute and Unqualified Divorce: Salmon P. Chase and the Radicalism of the Antislavery Platform
Joe Murphy, CUNY Graduate Center
12 pm – 1:30 pm: Break for Lunch
1:30 pm – 2:45 pm:
SESSION THREE: POLITICAL CRISIS OF THE 1850s
Presiding: Sean Wilentz, Princeton University
The Underground Railroad Reconsidered: Antebellum Politics and the Challenges of Counting Fugitive Slaves and Their Allies
Matthew Pinsker, Dickinson College
The Van and the Rear: Abolition and the Politics of Antislavery
Manisha Sinha, University of Massachusetts Amherst
The King’s Cure: Lincoln, State Abolition, and the Origins of the Thirteenth Amendment
James Oakes, CUNY Graduate Center
3 pm – 4:30 pm:
PANEL DISCUSSION: IMPLICATIONS
Moderator: Catherine Clinton, University of Texas San Antonio
Speakers:
Eric Foner, Columbia University
James McPherson, Princeton University
James Brewer Stewart, Macalester College
NO RESERVATIONS REQUIRED. For more information, call 212-817-8215.
- See more at: http://www.gc.cuny.edu/Public-Programming/Calendar/Detail?id=26955#sthash.492T7TJ6.dpuf