Tag "Emancipation"
By Editor February 18, 2026

OI Author Conversation with Paul Polgar & Ronald A. Johnson

Join us ONLINE on Wednesday, April 8, 2026, for “Teaching about Slavery & Emancipation in the Age of Revolutions” with Paul Polgar (Tufts University), author of Standard-Bearers of Equality: America’s First Abolition Movement” (Omohundro Institute with UNC Press, 2019—new in paper in 2025), and Ronald A. Johnson (Baylor University), author of Entangled Alliances: Racialized Freedom and Atlantic Diplomacy during the American Revolution (Cornell University… Read More

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By Editor January 13, 2026

Colloq with Patrick Barker

“Sanctuary, Slavery, and Empire in Eighteenth Century Trinidad” A colloq with Patrick Barker (OI Postdoctoral Fellow) Please note that all colloquia papers are pre-circulated. Please register via the link below to receive a copy. In 1680, the Spanish crown granted conditional sanctuary to fugitives who escaped foreign enslavers and made their way to Trinidad, then a marginal territory… Read More

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By Editor January 13, 2026

Colloq with Joseph La Hausse de Lalouvière

“Interpreting the Napoleonic Restoration of Slavery” A colloq with Joseph La Hausse de Lalouvière (University of Edinburgh) Please note that all colloquia papers are pre-circulated. Please register via the link below to receive a copy. The Napoleonic decision in 1802 to revoke emancipation and seek to reenslave more than 500,000 people in the Caribbean braided together two distinct… Read More

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