
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 UniversityFrom 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 UniversityComment: 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 UniversityDevelopment as Freedom: Rethinking Jefferson’s Statecraft
Johann N. Neem, Western Washington UniversityComment: 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 UniversityThe Awakening of Iroquoian Protestantism at Onaquaga
Daniel R. Mandell, Truman State UniversitySacred Genealogy: Native American and African Missionaries in the British Atlantic World
Edward E. Andrews, University of New HampshireComment: 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 UniversityImperial 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 NewfoundlandComment: 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 UniversityCrèvecoeur as Catholic Thinker
Thomas M. Allen, University of OttawaThe Anglican Origins of the American Self
Edward Larkin, University of DelawareComment: 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 MaineThe Mohegan Case and the Question of Amerindian Rights in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic
Craig Bryan Yirush, University of California, Los AngelesComment: Bruce H. Mann
- 1:30
Conference adjourns
