| 8:00-9:00 a.m. | Registration |
| 9:00-9:15 | Welcome |
| 9:15–11:15 | Session I: Abolitionism’s Contexts Chair: Irene K. Odotei, Historical Society of Ghana British Abolitionism and Abolition Policy during the Age of Revolution in Comparative Context Seymour Drescher, University of Pittsburgh In the Wake of the Zong: “Improvident Avarice” and the Soul of the British Empire Vincent Brown, Harvard University The Geopolitics of Slave Trade Abolition in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World Matthew Mason, Brigham Young University Comment: Philip D. Morgan, Johns Hopkins University |
| 11:15–11:30 | Break |
| 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. | Session II: African and European Discourses of Abolitionism Chair: Takyiwaa Manuh, Institute of African Studies Abolition and West-African Societies: The Inconclusive Debate Anselme Guezo, University of Abomey-Calavi Abolition and Emancipation as a Discourse of Colonization and Control John Glover, University of Redlands Abolitionism and the Remodeling of Colonialism Claudius Fergus, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Comment: Robert Addo-Fening, University of Ghana |
| 1:30–2:30 | Lunch |
| 2:30–4:30 | Session III: The Enlightenment’s Equivocal Outcomes Chair: Hilary Beckles, University of the West Indies Backlash against Emancipation: The Origins of Polygenism and Political Economy Tessie P. Liu, Northwestern University Denmark’s Prohibition of the Slave Trade and African Colonial Policy, 1787–1850 Daniel P. Hopkins, University of Missouri, Kansas City Antislavery and the Image of Africa: Information and Aspiration in the Era of Abolition Christopher Leslie Brown, Columbia University Comment: Vincent Carretta, University of Maryland, College Park |
| 4:30–5:00 | Break |
| 5:00–7:00 | Session IV: Textual Representations and Ambiguities Chair: Kwadwo Opoku-Agyemang, University of Cape Coast Revolution or Redemption? Images of Haiti in the British Press, 1790–1820 Karen Racine, University of Guelph Ethnographic Knowledge and Abolitionist Politics: British Rethinking of Africa and Africans in the Era of Slave Trade Suppression Rosanne M. Adderley, Vanderbilt University Envisioning Black Freedom in British Graphic Art, 1787–1815 Catherine Molineux, Vanderbilt University Toussaint Louverture and Abolitionism in Britain and France: The Ambiguities of Literary Conscription Charles Forsdick, University of Liverpool Comment: Marcus Wood, University of Sussex |
| 7:15 | Reception given by the United States Embassy—Accra, Ghana |
| 8:00 | Banquet. Guest of Honor: The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Honorable Nana Akufo-Addo |
Thursday, August 9