Slavery, Empire and Abolition

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Programme

Slavery, Empire and Abolition: The Case of Spain Understood from a Comparative Perspective

DAY ONE: 4 JUNE 2009

9:30-9:45 Registration and coffee

9:45-10:00 Welcoming remarks: Stephen Jacobson (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

10:00-11:30 Slavery in the Late Iberian Empires (I). Chair and Commentator: Stephen Jacobson (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) [20.283]

De la marginalidad a la centralidad: La trata de esclavos en el sistema imperial español. Josep Maria Delgado and Martín Rodrigo (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

11:30-11:45 Coffee

11:45-13:45 Slavery in the Late Iberian Empires (II). Chair and Commentator: Alex Coello (CSIC) [20.283]

La traite des Noirs et l’unité coloniale du Brésil. Luiz Felipe de Alencastro (Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV)

El estatuto de la esclavitud fuera de los sistemas esclavistas: El ejemplo del Río de la Plata, siglos XVIII-XIX. Juan Carlos Garavaglia (Universitat Pompeu Fabra/École des hautes études en sciences sociales)

14:30-16:30 Lunch

17:00-19:00 Keynote Address with graduate students in attendance [Auditori Mercè Rodoreda]

From Empires of Slavery to Empires of Antislavery. Seymour Drescher (University of Pittsburgh)

21:00-23:00 Conference dinner

DAY TWO: 5 JUNE 2009

9:00-9:15 Coffee

9:15-12:00 Abolition and Slavery in Spain and the Spanish Colonies during the Era of Independence. Chair and Commentator: Seymour Drescher (University of Pittsburgh) [20.233]

The Blanco Whites: Slavery, Freedom, and Captivity in Spain’s Age of Revolution. Christopher Schmidt-Nowara (Fordham University)

Antiesclavitud antes del Abolicionismo: Redes y razones en la temprana Barcelona liberal (1833-1844). Albert Garcia Balañà (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

El momento de la abolición. Josep Maria Fradera (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

12:00-12:15 Coffee

12:15-14:00 Closing Paper. Chair and Commentator: Josep Maria Fradera (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

Microhistory Set in Motion: Slavery, Freedom, and Reinslavement from Senegambia to Saint-Domingue to Santiago to New Orleans. Jean Hébrard (École des hautes études en sciences sociales and University of Michigan) and Rebecca J. Scott (University of Michigan)

14:30 Lunch