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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 May 15, 2025

OI Author Conversation with Mary Hicks

Join Mary Hicks (University of Chicago), author of Captive Cosmopolitans: Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery (OI with partner UNC Press), in conversation with James Sweet (University of Wisconsin, Madison) online on Thursday, May 29, 2025, at NOON Eastern Time. REGISTER HERE Mary Hicks is an historian of the Black Atlantic at… Read More

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By Editor October 09, 2024

CFP: Pre-conference Workshop

Pre-conference Workshop “Resisting Enslavement” June 11, 2025 Convened by Jennifer L. Morgan Scholars are invited to apply for a one-day pre-conference workshop convened by Jennifer L. Morgan to take place at the College of Charleston on Wednesday, June 11, 2025. “Resisting Enslavement” will allow scholars to pre-circulate and discuss papers, articles, and/or chapters in progress focused on instances of… Read More

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By Editor October 09, 2024

CFP: 28th OI Annual Conference

28th Annual OI Conference “Currents and Exchanges in Vast Early America” The 28th Omohundro Institute annual conference will take place in Charleston, South Carolina, with the support of the Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World (CLAW) Program at the College of Charleston from Thursday, June 12 to Saturday, June 14, 2025. The program committee, co-chaired by Joyce Chaplin (Harvard University) and Matthew… Read More

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By Editor April 29, 2024

J.E. Morgan

J.E. Morgan, 2023-2024 OI-NEH Postdoctoral Fellow J.E. Morgan is a historian of gender, race, and sexuality and the intersections of culture and law in the Anglo-Atlantic of the long eighteenth century. Dr. Morgan completed her doctorate in history at Emory University in 2021 and has received research support from the Cromwell Foundation and American Legal Society and the McNeil… Read More

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By Editor April 04, 2024

“Communal Biography: Reflections on Centering Stories of the Enslaved”

Join the Omohundro Institute as we welcome OI author and former Council member Sara E. Johnson for the 10th annual Council Lecture. Professor Johnson (University of California, San Diego) will deliver “Communal Biography: Reflections on Centering Stories of the Enslaved.” Communal biography offers new ways to think about the past inside and outside of the archive.  Moving between… Read More

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By Editor February 23, 2024

OI Author Conversation with Sara E. Johnson and Ada Ferrer

Join OI author Sara E. Johnson in conversation with Ada Ferrer ONLINE as they discuss Johnson’s new book, Encyclopédie Noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry’s Intellectual World (Omohundro Institute/University of North Carolina Press, 2023). Johnson and Ferrer will discuss experimental writing methods in historiography, the idea of communal biography, and stories about the enslaved and free… Read More

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By Editor October 20, 2023

Colloq with Simon Newman

Join us on Tuesday, April 16, 2024 at 5:00 pm in the Cox classroom of the Reeder Media Center, lower level of Swem Library, as we welcome Simon Newman. Professor Newman will discuss “Taken Not Given: the end of slavery in Britain.” England’s Somerset v Stewart (1772) and Scotland’s Knight v Wedderburn (1778) have often been interpreted as ending… Read More

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By Editor July 28, 2023

WMQ Lecture with Vanessa Holden

Join us on Thursday, February 23, 2023, at 5:00 pm in room Tidewater B of the Sadler Center on the campus of William & Mary, for a talk by scholar Vanessa Holden (University of Kentucky) titled “Survival and Resistance: African American Women in Nat Turner’s Community.” Vanessa Holden is an associate professor of History at the University of Kentucky and director of the Central Kentucky… Read More

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By Editor July 28, 2023

Colloquium with Nicole Dressler

Join us in the OI Conference room, Swem Library, campus of William & Mary, for a discussion of “‘not to suffer him to be made subject to personal Slavery and Bondage’: Black Convict Transportation and Servitude in the British Atlantic World.” Nicole Dressler is a Senior Lecturer in History at William & Mary. Before coming to William… Read More

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By OI December 02, 2022

"Transforming Waste into Wealth: The Political Economy of Alcohol in the Leeward Islands, 1670-1737"

OI Colloquium with Lila O’Leary Chambers Alcohol played a crucial role in supporting the Leeward Islands’ transition from a “society with slaves” to an entrenched “slave society” across the early eighteenth century. Rather than acting solely as a signifier of planter excess, this chapter reveals that white settlers and enslaved and free African and African-descended peoples incorporated it in… Read More

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By OI December 02, 2022

“‘They brought them from the Palenque’: Captivity and Smuggling in Jamaica, ca. 1660”

OI Colloquium with Casey Schmitt Following the English invasion of Jamaica in 1655, Spanish forces maintained a toehold on the island over five years of guerilla warfare in large part because of the food and shelter they received from three different semi-autonomous Afro-Jamaican communities on the island. While historians discuss two of the three Afro-Jamaican villages, they also often… Read More

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