OIEAHC conference in Ghana

Saturday, August, 11, 2007

8:30–10:30 a.m.	Session IX: Forced Labor Systems: The Realm of the Indian Ocean Chair: Pier Larson, Johns Hopkins University Suppressing a Nefarious Traffic: The Mascarenes, Britain, and the Abolition of SlaveTrading in the Western Indian Ocean, 1770–1835 Richard B. Allen, Aapravasi Ghat Trust Fund, Mauritius British Abolition, Southeast Africa, and the Southwest Indian Ocean Edward A. Alpers, University of California, Los Angeles, and Benigna Zimba, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane Asian Migration and the Legacy of Abolition Adam McKeown, Columbia University Comment: Robert Harms, Yale University, Ehud R. Toledano, Tel-Aviv University
10:30–11:00	Break
11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.	Session X: The Law’s Impact in Human Terms Chair: Gary Craig, University of Hull The Broader Impact of British, U.S., and Danish Abolition of the Slave Trade: A Reassessment from the Online, Revised Version of the Transatlantic Slave Trade Database David Eltis, Emory University Antislavery Courts and the Dawn of International Human Rights Law Jennifer S. Martinez, Stanford Law School The Danish Edict of 1792 to Abolish the Slave Trade Erik Gøbel, Danish National Archives Comment: Eric Slauter, University of Chicago
1:00–2:00	Lunch
2:00–4:30	Session XI: Emanations of African Cultural and Spiritual Power Chair: P. Gabrielle Foreman, Occidental College Socio-Cultural Transformation in the Northern Volta Region of Ghana Kodzo Gavua, University of Ghana Trokosi and the 1807 Abolition: Linkages in History Sandra Greene, Cornell University Impacts and Consequences of Initial Abolitionary Efforts by Governments in the Atlantic World in the Period 1787–1807: A Case of Igboland Emmanuel C. Ejiogu, University of Maryland, College Park Obeah and the Abolition of the Slave Trade: Legislation, Prosecutions, and the Politics of Creolization, 1760–1838 Diana Paton, University of Newcastle Comment: D. E. K. Amenumey, University of Cape Coast
4:30–5:00	Break
5:00–7:00	Session XII: Legacies Chair: David Blight, Yale University History, Memory, Heritage, and Politics: The Legacy of the Transatlantic Slave Trade in Present-day Republic of Benin Elisée Soumonni, University of Abomey-Calavi In the Chains of the Past: The Slave Trade in Academic Memory in Ghana Ella Keren, The Open University of Israel Social Exclusion: An Aftermath of the Abolition of the Slave Trade in Northern Igboland Apex A. Apeh and Chukwuma C. Opata, University of Nigeria, Nsukka From Forced to Selective Immigration or the Torments of the Black Man in the Permanent Cycle of Age-Old Violence Cyriaque-Robert Yavoucko, University of Bangui Comment: Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, University of Cape Coast, Lonnie G. Bunch, National Museum of African American History, and Culture, Smithsonian Institution
7:00	Reception
8:00	Closing Banquet: Remarks by Vice Chancellor E. A. Obeng, University of Cape Coast