Session 6: Substence and Resistance

Saturday, October 26, 2013
James Egan, chair (English, Brown University)

James F. Dator (History and Africana Studies, Goucher College)
"The Antigua Conspiracy of 1736 and the Moral Economy of the Gods"

Lauren Derby (History, UCLA)
"The Mysterious Murder of Javier: Politics, Sorcery and Cattle in the Dominican Republic"

Michelle Burnham (English, Santa Clara University)
"Breadfruit, Plantain, and Sugarcane: Transplantation in Revolutionary Jamaica"

"Beyond Sweetness: New Histories of Sugar in the Early Atlantic World," an international and interdisciplinary conference at the John Carter Brown Library, October 24-27, 2013