The 28th annual meeting of the Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife held June 20-22, 2003.
" ... the purpose of this conference was to examine a New England perspective on American slavery, not only enslaved Africans and African Americans, but also Native American slaves and other captive people."--Introduction.
NMAH copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment.
Contents:
Slavery in Boston households, 1647-1770 / Peter Benes -- "Sold to mayntence a bastard": Sylvannus Warro's story / M. Michelle Jarrett Morris -- From Goddess of Love to unloved wife: naming slaves and redeeming masters in eighteenth-century New England / Richard A. Bailey -- Pauper apprenticeship in Narragansett Country: a different name for slavery in early New England / Ruth Wallis Herndon and Ella Wilcox Sekatau -- "That the name of slave may not more be heard": the New Hampshire Petition for Freedom, 1779 / Valerie Cunningham -- The Anti-Man-Hunting League: "kidnapping" the slave hunter / Jennifer S. Alpert -- Radical reform in public sentiment: Lydia Dixon and the Dover, New Hampshire, Ladies' Antislavery Society / Jody R. Fernald -- Enslavement, freedom, possibility, and poverty: four generations of Quash Gomer's family in Connecticut, 1748-1864 / Diane Cameron -- Calvin T. Swan, African-American carpenter in rural Massachusetts / Elizabeth A. Congdon -- Freedom in the archives: the pension case of Primus Hall / Margot Minardi -- "The Black First": Crispus Attucks and William Cooper Nell / Tavia Nyong'o -- "One Night Only!": blackface minstrelsy in nineteenth-century Northampton, Massachusetts / Stephanie Dunson