#  The Movement of People: Mobility and Migration, Recruitment and Resettlement 

 



**1996 Annual Seminar**

**Wednesday, September 4**

**SESSION 1**

**Overview**  
**Chair**: **Bernard Bailyn**, *Harvard University*

**Aaron S. Fogleman**, *University of South Alabama*  
["The Transformation of Immigration into the United States during the Era of the American Revolution"](/Fogleman-wp96002 "The Transformation of Immigration into the United States during the Era of the American Revolution")

**Claudia Schnurmann**, *Universität Göttingen*  
["Migration and Communication between Inhabitants of English and Dutch Colonies in the New World, 1648-1713"](/Schnurmann%20-%20WP%2096003 "Migration and Communication: Relations between Inhabitants of English and Dutch Colonies in the New World, 1648-1713")

**SESSION 2**

**Atlantic Networks, I: Religion**  
**Chair**: **Jon Butler**, *Yale University*

**Rosalind J. Beiler**, *University of Central Florida*  
["Transporting Settlers to the British Colonies: The Religious Foundations of Transatlantic Migration"](/Beiler-wp96004 "Transporting Settlers to the British Colonies: The Religious Foundations of Transatlantic Migration")

**Thomas J. Little**, *Emory & Henry College*  
["Mobility, Migration, and the Development of Evangelical Protestantism in the Eighteenth-Century Southern Anglophone American World"](/Little%20-%20WP%2096005 "Mobility, Migration, and the Development of Evangelical Protestantism in the Eighteenth-Century Southern Anglophone World")

**Holly Snyder**, *Brandeis University*  
["The Unfolding Self: Transmutations of Jewish Identity through Migration to British North America, 1654-1776"](/Snyder%20-%20WP%2096006 "The Unfolding Self: Transmutations of Jewish Identity through Migration to British North America, 1654-1776")

**Thursday, September 5**

**SESSION 3**

**Atlantic Networks, II**  
**Chair**: **Philip D. Morgan**, *Florida State University*

**Willem Klooster**, *Leiden University*  
["Moving to 'the finest, healthiest and most fertile land of this world': Dutch Migration to New Netherland, 1624-1664"](/Klooster%20-%20WP%2096007 "Moving to "the finest, healthiest and most fertile land of this world": Dutch Migration to New Netherland, 1624-1664")

**Georg Fertig**, *Universität Trier*  
["Household Formation and Economic Autarky in the Early Modern Atlantic World: Transatlantic Migration as a Test Case for the European Marriage Pattern"](/Fertig-wp96008 "Household Formation and Economic Autarky in the Early Modern Atlantic World: Transatlantic Migration as a Test Case for the European Marriage Pattern")

**Leslie Choquette**, *Assumption College*  
"French Migration to the New World"

**SESSION 4**

**Sources, I: English & Scots**  
**Chair**: **James Horn**, *University of Brighton*

**Alison Games**, *Georgetown University*  
["'Gallants, to Bohemia' and Maids for Virginia: The London Port Register of 1635"](/Games-wp96009 ""Gallants, to Bohemia" and Maids for Virginia: The London Port Register of 1635")

**Anthony W. Parker**, *University of Dundee*  
["The Highlands of Scotland in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century: Fertile Fields for Recruiting Settlers for Georgia's Colonial Frontier"](/Parker%20-%20WP%2096010 "The Highlands of Scotland in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century: Fertile Fields for Recruiting Settlers for Georgia's Colonial Frontier")

**R. Scott Stephenson**, *University of Virginia*

["'Were my project to make money I would never leave America': Highland Soldiers and Scottish Emigration to North America, 1756-1775"](/Stephenson%20-%20WP%2096011 ""Were my project to make money, I would never leave America": Highland Soldiers and Scottish Emigration to North America, 1756-1775")

**Friday, September 6**

**SESSION 5**

**Slavery**  
**Chair**: **Philip Curtin**, *John Hopkins University*

**Indrani Sen**, *University of Hull*  
["Trends in Slave Shipments from the Gold Coast: New Evidence on Slave Prices, 1710-1792"](/Sen%20-%20WP%2096012 "Trends in Slave Shipments from the Gold Coast: New Evidence on Slave Prices, 1710-1792")

**Stephanie Smallwood**, *Duke University*  
["After the Atlantic Crossing: The Arrival and Sale of African Migrants in the British Americas, 1672-1693"](/Smallwood%20-%20WP%2096013 "After the Atlantic Crossing: The Arrival and Sale of African Migrants in the British Americas, 1672-1693")

**Douglas B. Chambers**, *University of Virginia*  
["Eboe, Kongo, Mandingo: African Ethnic Groups and the Development of Regional Slave Societies in Mainland North America, 1700-1820"](/Chambers-wp96014 "Eboe, Kongo, Mandingo: African Ethnic Groups and the Development of Regional Slave Societies in Mainland North America, 1700-1820")

**SESSION 6**

**Receptions of Slavery**  
**Chair: Philip Curtin**, *Johns Hopkins University*

**Timothy J. Lockley**, *University of Cambridge*   
["Competing Forms of Labor: The Reaction of White Working People to the Introduction of Slave Labor into Georgia, 1733-1775"](/Lockley%20-%20WP%2096015 "Competing Forms of Labour: The Reaction of White Working People to the Introduction of Slave Labour into Georgia, 1733-1775")

**Mark S. Quintanilla**, *Cabrini College*  
["Poor Whites in a Slave Society: The Monmouth Rebels and the West Indies Sugar Monoculture"](/Quintanilla%20-%20WP%2096016 "Poor Whites in a Slave Society: The Monmouth Rebels and the West Indies Monoculture")

**Jennifer L. Morgan**, *University of Maryland*  
["This is 'Mines': Slavery, Gender, and Reproduction in Barbados and South Carolina, 1650-1715"](/Morgan%20-%20WP%2096017 "This is "Mines": Slavery, Gender, and Reproduction in Barbados and South Carolina, 1650-1715")

**Saturday, September 7**

**SESSION 7**

**Recruitment and Promotion: The Case of South Carolina**  
**Chair**: **Mark Kishlansky**, *Harvard University*

**Meaghan N. Duff**, *College of William and Mary*  
["Imbibing Information at the Carolina Coffee House: Emigration and the Dynamics of Promotion in a Proprietary Colony"](/Duff-wp96018 "Imbibing Information at the Carolina Coffee House: Emigration and the Dynamics of Promotion in a Proprietary Colony")

**Louis H. Roper**, *State University of New York, New Paltz*  
["Promotion, Periphery, and Patronage in Proprietary South Carolina"](/Roper%20-%20WP%2096019 "Promotion, Periphery, and Patronage in Proprietary South Carolina")

**Bertrand Van Ruymbeke**, *Université de Versailles--St. Quentin*, and *College of Charleston*  
["A 'Best Poor Huguenot's Country'? The Carolina Proprietors and the Recruitment of French Protestants"](/Van%20Ruymbeke%20-%20WP%2096020 "A "Best Poor Huguenot's Country"? The Carolina Proprietors and the Recruitment of French Protestants")

**SESSION 8**

**Migration in Modern World History: Designing a Multimedia CD-ROM**  
  
Interactive Demonstration

**Patrick Manning**, *Northeastern University*  
**John Saillant**, *Massachusetts Institute of Technology*

**Monday, September 9**

**SESSION 9**

**Sources, II: Irish and Germans**  
**Chair:** **Aaron S. Fogleman**, *University of South Alabama*

**Maurice Bric**, *University College Dublin*  
["Irish Emigration to America, 1783-1800"](/Bric-wp96021 "Irish Emigration to America, 1783-1800")

**Patrick Fitzgerald**, *American Folk Park*  
["A Sentence to Sail: The Transportation of Irish Convicts and Vagrants to Colonial America in the Eighteenth Century"](/Fitzgerald-wp96022 "A Sentence to Sail: The Transportation of Irish Convicts and Vagrants to Colonial America in the Eighteenth Century")

**Marianne S. Wokeck**, *Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis*  
["Servant Migration and the Transfer of Culture from the Old World to the New"](/Wokeck%20-%20WP%2096023 "Servant Migration and the Transfer of Culture from the Old World to the New")

**SESSION 10**

**Sources, III: Germans**  
**Chair:** **Marianne Wokeck**, *Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis*

**Christine Hucho**, *Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz*  
["Pious, Submissive, but Literate: The Schwenkfelder Women of Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania"](/Hucho-wp96024 "Pious, Submissive, but Literate: The Schwenkfelder Women of Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania")

**William O'Reilly**, *University of Oxford*  
["'A Paragon of Wickedness': Newlanders and Agents in Eighteenth-Century German Migration"](/OReilly%20-%20WP%2096025 ""A Paragon of Wickedness": Newlanders and Agents in Eighteenth-Century German Migration")

**Philip Otterness**, *Warren Wilson College*  
["The 'Poor Palatines' of 1709: The Origins and Characteristics of an Early Modern Mass Migration"](/Otterness%20-%20WP%2096026 "The "Poor Palatines" of 1709: The Origins and Characteristics of an Early Modern Mass Migration")

**Tuesday, September 10**

**SESSION 11**

**Resettlement, I**  
**Chair:** **Laurel Thatcher Ulrich**, *Harvard University*

**Eric Klingelhofer**, *Mercer College*  
["Settlement Types in the First Century of English Colonization"](/Klingelhofer-wp96027 "Settlement Types in the First Century of English Colonization")

**Barbara MacAllan**, *University of East Anglia*  
["Idealism and Compromise--'the beginninge of the world': The Plantation of Hampton, 1639-1644"](/MacAllan%20-%20WP%2096028 "Idealism and Compromise - "the beginninge of the world": The Plantation of Hampton, 1639-1644")

**Cécile Vidal**, *Université de Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne*  
["The Original Peopling of the Illinois Country, 1699-1765: A Colony of 'Peasants' Not Tied to Their Land"](/Vidal%20-%20WP%2096029 "The Original Peopling of the Illinois Country, 1699-1765: A Colony of "Peasants" Not Tied to Their Land")

**SESSION 12**

**Resettlement, II**  
**Chair:** **David Hancock**, *University of Michigan*

**John J. Navin**, *Brandeis University*  
["In the Company of Strangers: English Separatists in Holland and New England"](/Navin%20-%20WP%2096030 "In the Company of Strangers: English Separatists in Holland and New England")

**Cynthia Van Zandt**, *University of Connecticut*  
["Actors Across Boundaries in Early Colonial Atlantic America"](/Van%20Zandt%20-%20WP%2096031 "Actors Across Boundaries in Early Colonial Atlantic America")

**Wednesday, September 11**

**SESSION 13**

**Summary and Interpretation**   
Members of the Seminar