9th Annual Conference - June 7, 2002

Saturday, June 7, 2003 All Saturday sessions will take place at various locations in the French Quarter.
10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Session 5	Atlantic Exposures and Religious Identities The Arsenal, 3rd Floor Meeting Room, The Cabildo, 701 Chartres Street (Jackson Square) Chair: Jon Sensbach, University of Florida On Becoming Marginal in the Atlantic World: The Strange Career of John Oxen bridge Louise Breen, Kansas State University Passing as a Pastor: Samuel May and Clerical Imposture in the Atlantic World Thomas Kidd, Baylor University “To Mingle My Tears Amongst My Own Countrymen”: The Cape Coast Mission of Reverend Philip Quaque Ty Reese, University of North Dakota Comment: Mark Peterson, University of Iowa
Session 6	Developing Legal Identities on the Postpurchase Frontier Director’s Gallery, The Historic New Orleans Collection, 533 Royal Street Chair: Sally Hadden, Florida State University The Emergence of an Iowa Mesquakie Legal Identity: A Lasting Legacy of the I803 Louisiana Purchase Angela L Keysor, University of Iowa Shifting Structures of Empire: Legal, Economic, and Racial Identities in the Transitional Period of the Louisiana Territory, 18oo-1830 Eleanor Hayes McConnell, University of Iowa Comment: Sally Hadden
Session 7	Constructing the Self in Eighteenth-Century New York Toulouse Street Gallery, The Historic New Orleans Collection, 533 Royal Street Chair: Carol Berkin, Baruch College, City University of New York Legal Fictions and Colonial Identity: The New York City Mayor's Court Papers, I686-I740 Simon Middleton , University of East Anglia Enlightened Thought in Eighteenth-Century New York: "Fitting for a Gentleman or a Storekeeper" Robyn Davis McMillin, University of Oklahoma Comment: Chris Tomlins, American Bar Foundation
Session 8	Island Economies Old U.S. Mint, 3rd Floor Auditorium, 400 Esplanade Avenue Chair: John J. McCusker, Trinity University “But a pretty prison”: Environmental Scarcity and the Development of Early Bermuda Neil Kennedy, University of Western Ontario In Pursuit of Profit: Inter-Imperial Trade of New York and the Lesser Antilles, 1621-1689 Christian Koot, University of Delaware The Colonial Origins of English Wealth: The Harewoods of Yorkshire James Walvin, University of York Comment: John J. McCusker
12:00–1:30 p.m.	Lunch break
1:30–3:30
Session 9	Indians Trading Indians: Understanding the Indian Slave Trade in the Early Colonial Southeast Toulouse Street Gallery, The Historic New Orleans Collection, 533 Royal Street Chair: Alan Gallay, Western Washington University The Indian Slave Trade and Anglo-Indian Discourse in the Era of the Yamasee War William L. Ramsey, University of Idaho Impacts of Native American Enslavement on the Tuscarora and Related Tribes during the Early 1700s Rebecca M. Seaman, Elizabeth City State University Compelling Alliances: Apalachicola Efforts to Survive the Slave Trade, 1680-1700 Joseph Hall, Bates College Comment: Alan Gallay
Session 10	Sugar and Social Relations in Early Nineteenth-Century Louisiana Old U.S. Mint, 3rd Floor Auditorium, 400 Esplanade Avenue Chair: John C. Rodrigue, Louisiana State University The Sugar Boom and the German Coast Slave Insurrection of 1811 Adam Rothman, Georgetown University The Pursuit of “More Negroes and Some Money”: Struggling for Success and Survival on the Louisiana Sugar Frontier Sarah Russell, North Carolina State University Comment: Thomas N. Ingersoll, Ohio State University, Lima John C. Rodrigue
Session 11	Religious Diversity in Colonial America: New Approaches Director’s Gallery, The Historic New Orleans Collection, 533 Royal Street Chair: Randy Sparks, Tulane University Stuart Absolutism and Religious Diversity in the Restoration Middle Colonies Evan Haefeli, Tufts University The Evolution of a Peculiar People: Scottish Covenanters and the Creation of an American Identity Emily M. Robinson, University of California, Santa Cruz Comment: Patricia Bonomi, New York University, Emerita & Dee E. Andrews, California State University, Hayward
Session 12	Marine Captives: Non-Slave Maritime Bondage in the Long Eighteenth Century The Arsenal, 3rd Floor Meeting Room, The Cabildo, 701 Chartres Street Qackson Square) Chair: Paul Gilje, University of Oklahoma Everyday Escapes: The Art of Evading the British Press Gang Denver Brunsman, Princeton University Ritual and Resistance in the American Captivity Experience during the War of 1812 Dan Hicks, Pennsylvania State University Nascent Socialists or Resourceful Criminals? A Reconsideration of Transatlantic Piracy, 1690-1726 Crystal Williams, University of Oklahoma Comment: Lisa Norling, University of Minnesota
3:30–4:00	Break
4:00–6:00
Session 13	Visions of Empire in French and British North America, 1700–1785 Director’s Gallery, The Historic New Orleans Collection, 533 Royal Street Chair: Geoffrey Plank, University of Cincinnati Wabenaki Diplomacy on the Acadian Frontier: The Treaty of Arrowsic, 1717 Christopher Bilodeau, Cornell University “Thechas, Techas” Means “Friends, Friends”: Middlemen and Women in East Texas at the End of the Seventeenth Century Carla Gerona, University of Texas, Dallas “To Take Possession of Georgia”: The French and Native American Plan of 1737 Shane A. Runyon, University of Florida Comment: John T. Juricek, Emory University
Session 14	Thinking the Unthinkable: Constructing the Haitian Revolution in Early America The Arsenal, 3rd Floor Meeting Room, The Cabildo, 701 Chartres Street (Jackson SquaIe) Chair: Alison Games, Georgetown University “He was considered as the Washington of St. Domingo”: Writing and Remembering Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution in the Early Republic Matt Clavin, American University “This colony is lost forever”: St. Domingue, the Colonial Question, and Emancipation in Philadelphia James Dun, Princeton University Comment: Douglas Egerton, Lemoyne College & Jane Landers, Vanderbilt University
Session 15	Medical Encounters Across Colonial North America Old U.S. Mint, 3rd Floor Auditorium, 400 Esplanade Avenue Chair: Joyce Chaplin, Harvard University The Secrets of the Mexican Natural World in Doctor Juan de Cardenas’s Book of Ptoblems Luis Millones-Figueroa, Colby College Exchanging Medical Knowledges: French and Natives in New France Allan Greer, University of Toronto Whose Blessing? What Means? Medicine as a Theater of Intercultural and SpirituaL Competition in Colonial New England Walter W Woodward, Dickinson College Comment: Trudy Eden, University of Northern Iowa
Session 16	Gender and Racial Identities in Francophone and Anglophone America Toulouse Street Gallery, The Historic New Orleans Collection, 533 Royal Street Chair: Natalie Zacek, University of Manchester Private Lives, Public Orders: Sexuality, Gender, and Race in Louisiana, 1770-1830 Mary Williams, Brown University New Orleans Gens de Couleur Libres Jennifer M. Spear, University of California, Berkeley “Madame [the Governor’s] Wife does not scruple to betake herself to the ell”: Retailing Class and Gender in French Colonial New Orleans Sophie White, University of Notre Dame Better to Marry than to Earn? Marriage, Masculinity, and Choices in a British-Atlantic World Sarah Pearsall, St. Andrews University, Scotland Comment: Natalie Zacek
6:00–7:45	Reception. Hosted by The Historic New Orleans Collection at their Galleries and Courtyard, 533 Royal Street.
8:00–9:00	French and Spanish Choral Connections, Louisiana Vocal Arts Chorale, The Cathedral of St. Louis King of France, Jackson Square. Hosted by the Department of History, Tulane University, and the Consulat General de France.

Saturday, June 7, 2003