POSTPONED: The Antislavery Moment: Capitalism, Democracy, and the Origins of the Abolitionist Impulse

Postponed until Fall 2020.

This conference will feature prominent scholars who work on abolition, anti-slavery politics, capitalism, and slavery, and will attempt to revisit the classic questions about the relationship between the marketplace and abolition in light of the new historiographical trends.

Co-sponsored by the Department of African American Studies; Humanities Council; Program in American Studies; Program in Latin American Studies; University Center for Human Values