The Black Atlantic

November 8, 2003

Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University
Introduction

Session I

John Thornton and Linda Heywood, Boston University
“Central African Culture and Memory in Africa and the Atlantic”

Douglas Chambers, University of Southern Mississippi
“Africans in the Americas: Ethnicity, History, and the Black Atlantic”

Session II

Ingrid Monson, Harvard University
“On Music and the Black Atlantic”

Session III

Barry Gaspar, Duke University
“Captivity and Repatriation in the Slave Trade to the British West Indies, 1690s-1720s”

Session IV

Vincent Carretta, University of Maryland
“Methodological, Ideological, and Disciplinary Challenges in the Quest for the Identity of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African”

Stephen Behrendt, Victoria University of Wellington
“Old Calabar Merchants and the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World”

Session V

Vincent Brown, Harvard University
“Black Power in Atlantic Bondage: Spiritual Authority in the British Caribbean, c. 1760-1825”