Events

  • February 21 - 23, 2008

    Abolition of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: Telling the Story

    University of the Bahamas, Oakes Field Campus, Nassau.

    http://www.cob.edu.bs/News/ABOLITIONCONF_INFO.pdf

  • March 26 - 29, 2008

    Ending the International Slave Trade: A Bicentenary Inquiry

    College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina

    http://www.cofc.edu/atlanticworld/

  • April 9 - 12, 2008

    (Re)Roots and (Re)Routes: Transatlantic Connections in Language and Literature

    College Language Association and College of Charleston

  • April 10 - 12, 2008

    Atlantic Emancipations

    McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

    http://www.mceas.org/emancipations/

  • May 29 - June 1, 2008

    Abolishing Slavery - Then and Now

    University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut

    http://apsanet.org/content_42954.cfm

  • June 23 - 28, 2008

    UNESCO Transatlantic Slave Trade Education Project/USA National Meeting

    New Orleans, Louisiana, Tulane University

  • September 28, 2008

    Empire, Slave Trade and Slavery: Rebuilding Civil Society in Sierra Leone

    Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation, University of Hull, United Kingdom

    http://www.hull.ac.uk/wise/index.html

  • October 9 - 12, 2008

    Slave Routes: Resistance and Creative Progress

    New York University in collaboration with the Schomburg Center

  • October 23, 2008

    1808 Bicentennial of the Abolition of the Slave Trade

    Pennsylvania State University