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EVENTS
To Be Sold
In a first-time collaboration with the Library of Virginia, The Collection will cohost a daylong, simulcast symposium about the domestic slave trade.
In 1808, America abolished the international slave trade, ending the export of people from the African continent to the Americas, but the domestic slave trade—the buying and selling of human chattel within the US—continued until the close of the Civil War, in 1865. During this 57-year period, an estimated 750,000 enslaved men, women, and children were forcibly moved from the upper to the lower South.
In the spring of 2015, The Historic New Orleans Collection will join the Library of Virginia, based in Richmond, and the Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies at the University of New Orleans to explore this topic through two exhibitions and a unique collaborative symposium. “To Be Sold: The American Slave Trade from Virginia to New Orleans” will take place in both Richmond and New Orleans, on Saturday, March 21, 2015. Morning sessions will be held in Richmond and simulcast in New Orleans, while afternoon sessions will be held in New Orleans at THNOC’s Williams Research Center and simulcast in Richmond. Participants at both locations will be able to engage in live discussions with attendees and presenters at both sites.
The day will include a series of panel discussions with experts from across the country, as well as two keynote presentations, one in New Orleans and one in Richmond.
The Richmond panelists include Charles B. Dew, Williams Coliege; Alexandra Finley, doctoral candidate from the College of William and Mary; Robert Nelson, University of Richmond; Scott Nesbit, University of Richmond; Calvin Schermerhorn, Arizona State University; and Phillip Troutman, George Washington University. Maurie Mclnnis of the University of Virginia and curator of the exhibition at the Library of Virginia will moderate the talks there.
The New Orleans panelists include Edward E. Baptist,
Cornell University; Stephanie Jones-Rogers, University of California-Berkeley; Lawrence N. Powell, Tulane University; and Adam Rothman, Georgetown University. Walter Johnson of Harvard University will serve as the moderator in New Orleans.
Thanks to funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, participants will be able to attend the event free of charge. Due to limited seating, registration is required.
Overflow seating at the New Orleans program will be available at the Louisiana Supreme Court, 400 Royal Street.
Both the Library of Virginia and The Historic New Orleans Collection will have exhibitions exploring the topic of the domestic slave trade. LVA’s display, To Be Sold, opened October 27 and will remain on view through May 30, 2015.
THNOC’s exhibition Purchased Lives: New Orleans and the Domestic Slave Trade, 1808-1865, opens March 17, 2015, and will remain on view through July 18. —TERESA DEVLIN
SYMPOSIUM
To Be Sold: The American Slave Trade from Virginia to New Orleans
Saturday, March 21, 2015
Williams Research Center, 410 Chartres Street
Free; registration required
To reserve a seat, contact THNOC at (504) 523-4662 or email wrc@hnoc.org.
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