Slavery & Sexuality Program
Unless otherwise noted, conference events take place at the AT&T Executive Education & Conference Center on UT campus, 1900 University Avenue, Austin, Texas 78705, at the corner of Martin Luther King, Jr., Blvd. and University Ave.
Friday, November 11, 2011
Room 204 (Ampitheater)
8:00-9:00am Registration
9:00-9:20am Welcome & Opening Remarks
Julie Hardwick
Director, the Institute for Historical Studies, and Professor of History
University of Texas at Austin
Alan Tully
Chair, the Department of History, and
Eugene C. Barker Centennial Professor in American History
University of Texas at Austin
Daina Ramey Berry
Conference Convener and Associate Professor of History
University of Texas at Austin
Leslie M. Harris
Conference Convener and Associate Professor of History
Emory University
9:20-9:30am Break
9:30-11:30am Session 1 "Regulating Sexuality and Slavery in the Legal Sphere"
Chaired by Jacqueline Jones
The Sexual Exploitation of Enslaved Girls and the Legacy of Slavery: What’s New?
by Wilma King
Sexual Reparations for Slavery
by Adrienne D. Davis
A Man, His Mistress, and Her Cow: Race, Class, Gender, and Bestiality in the Slave South
by Steven Deyle
11:30-12:30pm Break. See Information page for lunch registration or a list of nearby restaurants.
12:45-2:45pm Session 2 "The Slave Trade and the Value of Sexuality"
Chaired by Tiffany M. Gill
"He Was Sorry He Lost So Good A Chair": (De)-valuation and Death of the
Sexualized Black Female Body in the Seafaring World of Slavery
by Sowande’ Mustakeem
Why are Slave Women Worth Less?
by Trevor Burnard
Prostitutes, Wives, and Breeders: Feudal and Capitalist Temporality in Colonial
Cuban Visions of Female Slave Sexuality
by Kym Morrison
2:45-3:00pm Break
3:00-5:00pm Session 3 "Men, Masculinity, & Sexuality"
Chaired by Kali Nicole Gross
The Sexual Abuse of Black Men Under American Slavery
by Thomas A. Foster
Men, Women and Sexuality in Deep South Slave Communities
by Leslie M. Harris
Ruinous Affairs: Distressed Sexualities, Race and Cultural Scandal in Eighteenth-Century
Bridgetown, Barbados
by Marisa J. Fuentes
6:00-7:00pm Reception, Garrison Hall portico at the west entry. Map
Reception is free and open to public, but RSVP is required.
Please RSVP by Thursday, November 10 to Courtney Meador.
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Room 203 (Classroom next to ampitheatre 204)
8:00-8:30am Registration
8:30-10:30am Session 4 "Seeking Sexual Autonomy Amid Enslavement"
Chaired by Elizabeth Clement
"Bound as fast in wedlock as a slave can be": Marital Love and Sexuality of the Enslaved
by Tera W. Hunter
Scenes of Subjection-Sites of Survival: Enslaved Women's Bodies, Sexuality,
and Freedom Laws in Maryland
by Jessica Millward
The Possibility of Pleasure: Black Women’s Slavery, Sexuality and Resistance
by Barbara Krauthamer
10:30-10:45am Break
10:45-12:45pm Session 5 "Feminist, Visual and Linguistic Approaches to Slave Sexuality"
Chaired by Jennifer M. Wilks
Towards a Black Feminist Epistemology of Gender and Slavery
by Jennifer L. Morgan
"Buck," "Pussy," "Angus" and "Wench": Naming, Sexuality, and Personality in the Slave South
by Daina Ramey Berry
Ladies, Gentlemen, Slaves & Citizens
by Tamara J. Walker
