Conf. ANn: 2nd Slaveries and the Atlantization of the Americas - Köln 07/12
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Abteilung für iberische und lateinamerikanische Geschichte des Historischen Instituts, Universität zu Köln 12.07.2012-14.07.2012, Köln, Philosohicum Seminarraum 010
During the Nineteenth century, the expansion of slavery - by illegal slave trade - transformed all slave societies across the Americas, not only the U.S. South but also the Caribbean and Brazil. The "second slavery," as Dale W. Tomich calls this historic departure, was different from colonial slavery by new commodities, produced in unprecedented quantities, in regions formerly marginal to the Atlantic economy, in reconfigured polities. The Haitian Revolution from 1791 to 1804 changed the conditions, because the french colony Saint Domingue was the leading producer of coffee as well as sugar, the most valuable tropical commodity in the Atlantic world.
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Thursday July 12
19.00 hours: Opening of the Colloquium
Friday July 13
10.00 hours:
Introductory Words:
Dale Tomich (Binghamton University, USA) Michael Zeuske (University of Cologne, Germany)
11.00-12.00:
Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch (University Paris Diderot Paris7, France):
"African slaves and Atlantic metissage. A periodization 1400-1880"
12.00-13.00:
Robin Blackburn (University of Essex, UK) "Profitable but Challenged: the Economics and Morality of the New World Slave Systems"
13.00-15.00: Break
15.00-16.00:
Dale Tomich (Binghamton University, USA):
"Commodity Frontiers and the Crisis of Colonial Slavery 1783-1866".
16.00-17.00:
Enrico Dallago (National University of Ireland, Galway):
"The End of the 'Second Slavery' in the Confederate South and the 'Great Brigandage' in Southern Italy: Some Comparative Suggestions".
17.30-18.30:
Presentation of the film: "Caribbean Journey: Conversations with Sidney Mintz" opening remarks by Dale Tomich
Saturday July 14
10.00-11.00:
Rafael de Bivar Marquese (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil):
"Capitalism, Slavery, and the Brazilian Coffee Economy in the Long Nineteenth Century ("Capitalismo, escravidão e economia cafeeira do Brasil no longo século XIX")".
11.00-12.00:
Reinaldo Funes (Fundación Antonio Núñez Jiménez, Cuba):
"Cuba, 19th Century".
12.00-13.00:
Luiza Franco Moreira (Binghamton University, USA):
"The aftermath of abolition: Distortions of the Historical Record in Machado de Assis: "Counselor Aires' Memorial"".
13.00-15.00 Break
15.00-16.00:
Wazir Mohamed (Indiana University East, USA):
"Peasant or Proletarian: Emancipation and the struggle for Freedom in British Guiana in the shadow of the Second Slavery".
16.00-17.00:
Christian Cwik (University of Cologne, Germany):
"The end of the British Atlantic slave trade or the beginning of the big slave robbery, 1808-1850".
17.00 hours:
Michael Zeuske (University of Cologne, Germany): "Conclusion: 2nd Slaveries and Atlantization".
17.30 Closing
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Michael Zeuske
Albertus Magnus Platz
Universität zu Köln, Abteilung für iberische und lateinamerikanische Geschichte des Historischen Instituts
michael.zeuske [at]uni-koeln.de
[Cross-posted, with thanks, from H-Soz-u-Kult]