Antislavery Bulwark The Antislavery Origins of the Civil War 17-18 October, 2014 CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY (& New-York Historical Society, 170 Park Avenue West) gc.cuny.edu/Public-Programming/Calendar/Detail?id=26955 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 RESERVATIONS: 212-817-8215 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 This Species of Property: Slavery, Subjecthood, and the Somerset Decision 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: The Origins 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 Abolition, One State at a Time: Lincoln’s Crooked Path to 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 - See more at: gc.cuny.edu/Public-Programming/Calendar/Detail?id=26955#sthash.EOyVKgqG.dpufThe Antislavery Bulwark The Antislavery Origins of the Civil War
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