#  The Structure of Atlantic Societies 

 



**2002 Annual Seminar**

**Tuesday, August 6**

**SESSION 1

**Perceptions from Abroad

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

**Sandra Rebok**, *Spanish Council for Scientific Research, Madrid*  
 "Alexander von Humboldt and the Colonial Societies of Spanish America"

**Daniel Kilbride**, *John Carroll University*  
 "From Provincial to National Identity: American Leisure Travelers in Europe, circa 1700-1820"

**SESSION 2

**Rebellion and Social Order on the Spanish Frontier  
 Chair**: **Kenneth Andrien**, *The Ohio State University*

**David T. Garrett**, *Reed College*  
 "The Loyalist Inca and Túpac Amaru: Ethnicity, Class, and Allegiance in Bourbon Cusco"

**Margarita Gascón**, *Centro Regionale de Investigaciones, Argentina*  
 "Frontier Societies: A View from the Southern Frontier of the Indies"

**Wednesday, August 7**

**SESSION 3

**Ethnogeography: Race, Space, and Society  
 Chair**: **Bernard Bailyn**, *Harvard University*

**James Carson**, *Queen's University, Ontario*  
 "Old Worlds into New: An Ethnogeography of the Colonial South"

**David L. Preston**, *College of William and Mary*  
 "The Trojan Horse of Empire: Imperial Crisis in the Trans-Appalachian West, 1760-1774"

**Thursday, August 8**

**SESSION 4

**Purity and Corruption of Blood  
 Chair**: **R. Douglas Cope**, *Brown University*

**María Elena Morales**, *Universidad de Barcelona*  
 "The *Estatutos de Limpieza de Sangre* in the Province of Venezuela, 1609-1820"

**Ben Vinson III**, *Barnard College, Columbia University*  
 "Studying Race from the Margins: The 'Forgotten Castes': *Lobos, Moriscos, Coyotes, Moros,* and *Chinos* in Colonial Mexico"

**SESSION 5

**Mexico City: Race and Social Organization  
 Chair**: **R. Douglas Cope**, *Brown University*

**Francisco A. Ortega**, *University of Wisconsin at Madison*  
 "The Staging of the *Fatalidad lastimosa*, or the Creole Nation's Lack of Viability"

**Matthew D. O'Hara**, *University of California at San Diego*  
 "A Flock Divided: Ecclesiastical Reform, Religious Practice, and Local Identity in Mexico City, 1749-1810"

**Friday, August 9**

**SESSION 6

**The Transplantation of British Society  
 Chair**: **Ronald Hoffman**, *OIEAHC and the College of William and Mary*

**Marsha L. Hamilton**, *SUNY—Stony Brook*  
 "Scottish Communities in New England and the North Atlantic World in the Seventeenth Century"

**John Smolenski**, *University of California at Davis*  
 " 'Bastard Quakers' in America: The Keithian Schism and the Creation of Creole Quakerism in Early Pennsylvania"

**SESSION 7

**Elite Formation in the North American South  
 Chair**: **Ronald Hoffman**, *OIEAHC and the College of William and Mary*

**Christopher L. Doyle**, *University of Northern Colorado*  
 " 'Without a Single Recommendation': Trans-Atlantic Gentility and Success in Revolutionary Virginia"

**J. Elliott Russo**, *Independent Scholar*  
 " 'Being Nearly Related': Authority and Kinship in Colonial Maryland"

**Bradford J. Wood**, *Eastern Kentucky University*  
 " 'Carrying Everything before Them': The Rise of the Lower CapeFear Elite, 1725-1775"

**Saturday, August 10**

WORKSHOP SESSION

**Monday, August 12

**SESSION 8

**Free Blacks in Portuguese, British, French, and Spanish America  
 Chair**: **Jane Landers**, *Vanderbilt University*

**Mariana L. R. Dantas**, *Johns Hopkins University*  
 "Slave Manumission and Urban Development in Baltimore, Maryland, and Sabará, Minas Gerais, 1750-1810"

**Dayo Nicole Mitchell**, *University of Virginia*  
 " 'The Middle Situation': Free People of Color in Dominica and Trinidad, 1800-1825"

**SESSION 9

**Poor Whites in Jamaica and Colonial Ecuador  
 Chair**: **Jane Landers**, *Vanderbilt University*

**Christer Petley**, *University of Warwick, UK*  
 " 'The best poor man's country in the world'? The Position and Aspirations of Non-Sugar-Producing Landowners in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Jamaican Slave Society"

**Cynthia E. Milton**, *University of British Columbia*  
 "Poverty and the Politics of Colonialism: 'Poor Whites, Their Petitions, and the Erosion of Privilege in Late Colonial Quito, 1678-1800"

**Tuesday, August 13**

**SESSION 10

**The Dutch in America: Rural and Urban  
 Chair**: **Cathy Matson**, *Delaware University*

**Kathryn A. Clippinger**, *Cornell University*  
 "Dutch Families, Black and White: The Structure of Afro-Dutch Households on the New York Frontier, 1720-1820"

**Dennis J. Maika**, *Fox Lane High School, Bedford, NY*  
 "Leadership in Manhattan's Merchant Community: Office-Holding Patterns and the Persistence of a Merchant Elite"

**Wednesday, August 14**

**SESSION 11

**Race, Class, and Social Structure  
 Chair**: **Andrew O'Shaughnessy**, *University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh*

**Miranda Spieler**, *Columbia University*  
 "The *Guillotine Sèche*: Mechanisms of Proscription in Revolutionary France and French Guiana, 1791-1799"

**Rebecca Hartkopf Schloss**, *Duke University*  
 " 'The class of white subalterns': Elite White Efforts to Control Martinique's Male *petits blancs*, 1802-1830"

**Meri L. Clark**, *Princeton University*  
 " 'The blight of bad examples': Morals Legislation and Social Conflict in Colombian Schooling, 1800-1830"

**SESSION 12

**Urban Oligarchies and Metropolitan Relations  
 Chair**: **Bernard Bailyn**, *Harvard University*

**Sheryllynne Haggerty**, *National Maritime Museum/Brunel University, UK*  
 "The Structure of the Philadelphia Trading Community on the Transition from Colony to State"

**Marcela Ternavasio**, *Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina*  
 "New Recruitment Methods of the Governing Elite in Rio de la Plata between 1810 and 1825"

**Thursday, August 15**

**SESSION 13

**Summary and Interpretation**   
 Members of the Seminar