| 8:30–11:00 a.m. | Session V: Adaptations to the Pressures of Abolitionism
Chair: Simon Newman, University of Glasgow The Abolition of the Slave Trade and the Transformation of South Central Africa during the Nineteenth Century David Gordon, Bowdoin College External and Local Factors in the Process of the Abolition of the Slave Trade in Angola, 1830–1860 Roquinaldo A. Ferreira, University of Virginia An “Abominable” New Trade: The Closing of the African Slave Trade and the Changing Patterns of Political Authority in the United States, 1808–1860 Steven Deyle, University of Houston |
| Break | five minutes |
| “The Cargo Consisting of Negroes . . . was Easily Removed”: Gender and Price Patterns among Human Chattels in the Domestic Market Daina Ramey Berry, Michigan State University The Abolition Dilemma: The Caribbean Dimension Heather Cateau, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Comment: Ira Berlin, University of Maryland, College Park |
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| Session VI: Contradictions between Principles and Geopolitical Goals
Chair: Lorena S. Walsh, Colonial Williamsburg Abolition and Imperialism: International Law and the British Suppression of the Atlantic Slave Trade Robin Law, University of Stirling Attempting Abolition: Royal Slavery and the Failure of the British Colonial State in Kano, Northern Nigeria Sean Stilwell, University of Vermont The Changing Meanings of Freedom: The British Foreign Office and the Handling of Liberated Africans in Brazil Beatriz Gallotti Mamigonian, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina |
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| Break | five minutes |
| Simón Bolίvar’s Promise to Haiti for the Abolition of the Slave Trade and Slavery in Gran Colombia, 1816–1830 Aline Helg, University of Geneva Emancipation in the Rio de la Plata, 1807–1852 Seth Meisel, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater Comment: Joseph C. Miller, University of Virginia |
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| 11:00–11:30 | Break |
| 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. | Session VII: Shifting Internal Structures on the African Coast
Chair: Ousmane Sène, Cheikh Anta Diop University Slave Trade Abolition and Its Impact on West Africa: The Gold Coast in Comparative Perspective David Richardson, University of Hull Changes in the Asante Economy Following British Suppression of the Transatlantic Slave Trade Warren C. Whatley, University of Michigan African Alternatives to the Export of Slaves in the Hinterland of the Bight of Biafra David Northrup, Boston College Comment: Akosua A. Perbi, University of Ghana |
| Session VIII: Plantations and Labor Relations: The Gold Coast and Senegal Chair: James Anquandah, University of Ghana Justifying Its Existence: Senegal from 1817–1831 Martin Klein, University of Toronto An Archaeological View of the Danish Abolition, Plantation Slavery, and Slave Lifeways in Southeastern Gold Coast, 1789–1850 Yaw Bredwa-Mensah, University of Ghana Conquest, Abolition, and the Reconstruction of Cross-Cultural Relations at Cape Coast Ty M. Reese, University of North Dakota Comment: Boubacar Barry, Cheikh Anta Diop University |
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| 1:30–2:30 | Lunch |
| 2:30–5:00 | Tour of Cape Coast and Elmina castles |
| 5:30–7:30 | Roundtable on Slavery and Abolition in Ghana, sponsored by The Historical Society of Ghana |
| 8:00 | Dinner |
Friday, August 10