Investigating Mid-Atlantic Plantations

Conference Program

Thursday, October 17, 2019
Library Company of Philadelphia, 1314 Locust Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
4:00 – 4:30 p.m.	Registration
4:30 – 4:45 p.m.	Welcome Cathy Matson, Program in Early American Economy and Society and University of Delaware
4:45 – 6:00 p.m.	Roundtable: What is a Mid-Atlantic Plantation? Chair and Moderator: Libbie Hawes, Cliveden of the National Trust Aaron V. Wunsch, Graduate Program in Historic Preservation, University of Pennsylvania Daniel K. Richter, McNeil Center and University of Pennsylvania Cathy Matson, Program in Early American Economy and Society and University of Delaware
6:00 – 7:00 p.m.	Reception

Friday, October 18, 2019
McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 3355 Woodland Walk (34th and Sansom Streets), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
8:30 – 9:00 a.m.	Registration & Coffee
9:00 – 9:15 a.m.	Welcome Daniel K. Richter, McNeil Center and University of Pennsylvania Laura Keenan Spero, McNeil Center
9:15 – 10:45 a.m.	Four Mid-Atlantic Plantations? Chair and Comment: Leslie M. Harris, Northwestern University Joel T. Fry, Bartram’s Garden Slavery and Freedom at Bartram’s Garden Gregory Hargreaves, University of Delaware The North American Fall Line & the Plantation Complex: The Case of Iron Laura Keim, Stenton Museum and Graduate Program in Historic Preservation, University of Pennsylvania “Acco’t of Negroes”: The Labor Force at a Merchant’s Mid-Atlantic Plantation Melissa Morris, University of Wyoming New Netherland Plantations and the (Mid-)Atlantic World
10:45 – 11 a.m.	Break
11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.	Trans-Plantations Chair and Comment: Matthew Mulcahy, Loyola University Maryland Jennifer Anderson, Stony Brook University Building a Trans-Colonial Plantation: Josiah Martin and the Management of his New York/Antiguan Estates Jason Daniels, Black Hills State University “Could I settle my affaires here in some manner to leave”: Absenteeism, Estate Development, and Trade between Pennsylvania and Jamaica at the turn of the Eighteenth Century Max Grivno, University of Southern Mississippi From Maryland to Mississippi: Landscapes of Work and Resistance in the Old South
12:30 – 1:45 p.m.	Lunch (on your own)
1:45 – 3:15 p.m.	Labor and Laborers Chair and Comment: Justin Roberts, Dalhousie University Elsa Mendoza, Georgetown University Enslaved Laborers and Gendered Divisions of Labor at Georgetown University and the Jesuit Plantations in Maryland Lorena Walsh, Independent Scholar Mid-Atlantic Agriculture South of the Mason-Dixon Line: Ringgold Family Plantations in Kent County, Maryland, 1776-1790
3:15 – 4:30 p.m.	Presentation and Discussion: The Penn & Slavery Project
4:30 – 4:45 p.m.	Break
4:45 – 6:00 p.m.	Presentation: Tales from Three Plantations Chair and Moderator: Lu Ann De Cunzo, University of Delaware Michael J. Gall, Richard Grubb & Associates Behind Closed Doors: Enslavement on the Rumsey Tenant Farm Gloria Henry and Vertie Lee, John Dickinson Plantation, Delaware Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs Life on a Jones Neck Plantation Gregory R. Weidman, Hampton National Historic Site New Light on Hidden Lives: Recent Discoveries on Enslavement and Freedom at Maryland’s Hampton Plantation
6:00 – 7:00 p.m.	Reception

Saturday, October 19, 2019
Stenton Museum, 4601 N. 18th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Bus transportation for participants will depart from Warwick Rittenhouse Square Hotel, 220 S. 17th Street, at 8:15 AM)
9:00 – 9:30 a.m.	Registration and Coffee
9:30 – 9:45 a.m.	Welcome Laura Keim, Stenton Museum and Graduate Program in Historic Preservation, University of Pennsylvania
9:45 – 11:15 a.m.	Town and Country Chair and Comment: Whitney Martinko, Villanova University Anne-Claire Faucquez, University Paris VIII Mapping Slavery in Seventeenth-Century New York Hinterlands: Manors as a New Model of Plantation Craig Hollander, The College of New Jersey and Francesca Paldino, Rutgers University-Camden “That Elegant Seat”: A New Look at Trenton’s Oldest House Catharine Dann Roeber, Winterthur and University of Delaware Coming and Going: Townhouse and Plantation in the Delaware Valley, 1680-1750
11:15 – 11:30 a.m.	Break
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.	Landscapes of Power Chair and Comment: Deirdre Cooper Owens, University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Library Company of Philadelphia Laura E. Masur, Catholic University of America Priestly Plantations: Agriculture, Labor, and Landscape in the Middle Atlantic Andrea Mosterman, University of New Orleans A Spatial Analysis of Enslavement in Early New York’s Dutch American Homes
1:00 – 2:30 p.m.	Lunch (provided)
2:30 – 4:00 p.m.	Lives of the Enslaved Chair and Comment: Michael L. Dickinson, Virginia Commonwealth University Sean Condon, Merrimack College Access to Freedom on Maryland’s Western Shore in the Late Antebellum Period Kyle Repella, University of Pennsylvania Seeking a “Stable Peace”: The Dutch Atlantic Ordeal of Ten Enslaved Native Americans Michelle Diane Wright, Community College of Baltimore Country Shades of Hilton: Exploring the Lives of Color at Hilton in Baltimore County
4:00 – 5:30 p.m.	Reception