Detail, Jefferson banner, 1800. Courtesy, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. Detail, Bâtême des Indiens de l’Amerique. Courtesy, College of William and Mary.

Sunday, June 8

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Book exhibits
    and coffee will be available in the Function Room, David J. Sargent Hall
  • 9:00–11:00
  • • Session 11 • The Contours of Trade on the “Fringes” of Empire
    Room 235, David J. Sargent Hall

    Chair: Conrad Edick Wright, Massachusetts Historical Society

    The First American China Trade
    Caroline Baer Frank, Brown University

    From Frontier Culture to Metropolitan Fashion: The Transatlantic Business of Moccasins
    Catherine Cangany, University of Michigan

    “Rec’d for publick use”: Urban Merchants, Revolutionary War Politics, and the Burden of Impressment in Elizabeth City County, Virginia
    Hank D. Lutton, Boston University

    Comment: Conrad Edick Wright

  • • Session 12 • Big Government Jeffersonianism? Jeffersonians on State Power
    Room 335, David J. Sargent Hall

    Chair: Cathy Matson, University of Delaware

    Jeffersonian Anti-Englishness, at Home and Abroad
    Lawrence A. Peskin, Morgan State University

    “A Democratic Snag in a Hedge”: Slavery, Commerce, and the Positive State
    Brian D. Schoen, Ohio University

    Development as Freedom: Rethinking Jefferson’s Statecraft
    Johann N. Neem, Western Washington University

    Comment: Max M. Edling, Uppsala University, Sweden

  • • Session 13 • Indigenous Christianities in Early America and the Atlantic World
    Room 385, David J. Sargent Hall

    Chair: John A. Grigg, University of Nebraska, Omaha

    “Preserving Their Liberty”: Indian Separate Churches after the First Great Awakening
    Linford D. Fisher, Harvard University

    The Awakening of Iroquoian Protestantism at Onaquaga
    Daniel R. Mandell, Truman State University

    Sacred Genealogy: Native American and African Missionaries in the British Atlantic World
    Edward E. Andrews, University of New Hampshire

    Comment: David J. Silverman, George Washington University

  • 11:00–11:30
    Refreshments
    • Function Room, David J. Sargent Hall
  • 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m.
  • • Session 14 • The Great North Atlantic Lake: Commodity Trade Ties Across the British Atlantic
    Room 295, David J. Sargent Hall

    Chair: Phyllis W. Hunter, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

    New England Timber: Regulating Supply in the Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic Economy
    Strother Roberts, Northwestern University

    Imperial Trade Warp: British-American Linen and Flaxseed Exchange across the North Atlantic to 1783
    Michelle M. Mormul, University of Delaware

    “A proud insolent race”: The Newfoundland Irish in the Anglo-Atlantic Cod Trade, 1750–1815
    Allan Dwyer, Memorial University of Newfoundland

    Comment: Christopher Clark, University of Connecticut

  • • Session 15 • Beyond Dissent: Religious Moderation and the Search for Common Belief
    Room 315, David J. Sargent Hall

    Chair: Douglas L. Winiarski, University of Richmond

    Franklin’s Moral Certainties
    Maurice S. Lee, Boston University

    Crèvecoeur as Catholic Thinker
    Thomas M. Allen, University of Ottawa

    The Anglican Origins of the American Self
    Edward Larkin, University of Delaware

    Comment: Christopher D. Grasso, Editor, William and Mary Quarterly

  • • Session 16 • Law and Rights in the Seventeenth– and Eighteenth–Century British Atlantic
    Room 235, David J. Sargent Hall

    Chair: Bruce H. Mann, Harvard Law School

    A Royalist Slave Code? Political Ideology, Lineage, and Slavery in Seventeenth-Century Virginia and the British Atlantic
    Holly Brewer, North Carolina State University

    “The True Case concerning said Thomas Choat”: The 1705 Declaration of Deborah Proctor
    Abby Chandler, University of Maine

    The Mohegan Case and the Question of Amerindian Rights in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic
    Craig Bryan Yirush, University of California, Los Angeles

    Comment: Bruce H. Mann

  • 1:30
    Conference adjourns