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Slavery/Antislavery in New England

The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife
Annual Proceedings
20, 21, 22 June 2003

CONTENTS

SECTION I. SLAVERY PRACTICES IN NEW ENGLAND IN THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES

Slavery in Boston Households, 1647–1770
Peter Benes

“Sold to Mayntence a Bastard”: Sylvannus Warro’s Story
M. Michelle Jarrett Morris

From Goddess of Love to Unloved Wife: Naming Slaves and Redeeming Masters in Eighteenth-Century New England
Richard A. Bailey

SECTION II. NATIVE AMERICAN “APPRENTICESHIPS”

Pauper Apprenticeship in Narragansett Country: A Different Name for Slavery in Early New England
Ruth Wallis Herndon and Ella Wilcox Sekatau

SECTION III. THE ABOLITION MOVEMENT

“That the name of slave may not more be heard”: The New Hampshire Petition for Freedom, 1779
Valerie Cunningham

The Anti-Man-Hunting League: “Kidnapping” the Slave Hunter
Jennifer S. Alpert

Radical Reform in Public Sentiment: Lydia Dixon and the Dover, New Hampshire, Ladies’ Antislavery Society
Jody R. Fernald

SECTION IV. LIFE BEFORE AND AFTER EMANCIPATION

Enslavement, Freedom, Possibility, and Poverty: Four Generations of Quash Gomer’s Family in Connecticut, 1748–1864
Diane Cameron

Calvin T. Swan, African-American Carpenter in Rural Massachusetts
Elizabeth A. Congdon

SECTION V. THE MEMORY OF SLAVERY

Freedom in the Archives: The Pension Case of Primus Hall
Margot Minardi

“The Black First”: Crispus Attucks and William Cooper Nell
Tavia Nyong’o

“One Night Only!”: Blackface Minstrelsy in Nineteenth-Century Northampton, Massachusetts
Stephanie Dunson

BIBLIOGRAPHY

NOTES

Conference Program, 20, 21, and 22 June 2003
Abstracts of Conference Papers Not Appearing in This Volume
Photograph and Illustration Credits
Notes on Contributors