LEGACY
OF SLAVERY:
Unequal Exchange Conference
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Slavery & Freedom in the Caribbean & Latin America
Panel 1
The Legacy of Slavery: Unequal Exchange Conference resulted from the passage of Senate Bills 2199 and 1737 in 2000 and was meant to address a number of issues related to the economic and political legacy of slavery, the roles of governments and businesses in this enterprise, and the question of reparations for the descendants of slaves.
This panel discusses the issue of Slavery and Freedom in the Caribbean and Latin America. Patrick Bellegarde-Smith of the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, discusses The Fire This Time: Global Implications of the Haitian Revolution, 1791-1806. Patricia Penn Hilden of UC Berkeley has her paper on Hunting North American Indians in Barbadoes read to the conference participants by Professor Ines M. Talamantez of UC Santa Barbara. Finally, Andrew Fisher, a Ph.D. student at UC San Diego, talks about Beyond Slavery: Afromestizos, Indians and Identity in Colonial Western Mexico. Jacqueline Bobo, Professor of Black Studies/Women's Studies, of the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Robert Hill, Professor of History, UCLA, also participate in the panel.
Program recording date and length: 5-3-02~ 1 Hour 59 Minutes
Slavery in North America
Panel 2
The Legacy of Slavery: Unequal Exchange Conference resulted from the passage of Senate Bills 2199 and 1737 in 2000 and was meant to address a number of issues related to the economic and political legacy of slavery, the roles of governments and businesses in this enterprise, and the question of reparations for the descendants of slaves.
This panel discusses the issue of Slavery in North America. Frederick C. Knight, a post-doctoral student at the Carter G. Woodson Institute for Afro-American and African Studies at the University of Virginia, discusses In an Ocean of Blue: The Uneven Legacies of Colonial South Carolina Indigo Plantations. Thelma Foote, Professor of History at UC Irvine, talks about Separate but Equal for Masters and Slaves: Apartheid Logic Historiography in the U. S. Mark Mack, Instructor in Biological Anthropology at Howard University, deals with A Mirror into the Past: The Biological Effects of Enslavement on the Ancestors of the African Burial Ground. Also on the panel are Anna Everett, Professor of Film Studies, UC Santa Barbara; and Douglas H. Daniels, Professor of Black Studies/History, UC Santa Barbara.
Program recording date and length: 5-3-02~ 1 Hour 28 Minutes
Slavery and Development
Panel 3
The Legacy of Slavery: Unequal Exchange Conference resulted from the passage of Senate Bills 2199 and 1737 in 2000 and was meant to address a number of issues related to the economic and political legacy of slavery, the roles of governments and businesses in this enterprise, and the question of reparations for the descendants of slaves.
This panel discusses the issue of Slavery and Development. Joseph Inikori, Professor of History from the University of Rochester, talks about The Atlantic World Slave Economy and the Development Process in England, 1650-1850. Paul Finkelman, the Chapman Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tulsa School of Law, deals with Affirmative Action for the Master Class: Understanding the Proslavery Constitution and Its Impact on American Politics. While David Horne, Graduate Faculty with the Program in Public Administration at California State University, Northridege, discusses Profits from Slave Breeding in America. Also on the panel were Christopher Parker, Professor of Political Science, UC Santa Barbara; and Christopher McAuley, Professor of Black Studies, UC Santa Barbara.
Program recording date and length: 5-3-02~ 1 Hour 56 Minutes
Life and Labor Among Enslaved Women
Panel 4
The Legacy of Slavery: Unequal Exchange Conference resulted from the passage of Senate Bills 2199 and 1737 in 2000 and was meant to address a number of issues related to the economic and political legacy of slavery, the roles of governments and businesses in this enterprise, and the question of reparations for the descendants of slaves.
This panel discusses the issue of Life and Labor Among Enslaved Women. Brenda Stevenson of UCLA talks about The Lives and Labor of Slave Women; whereas, Jayne Boisvert of Russell Sage College, discusses Haiti's Colonial Past: Female Resistance in Saint Domingue. Rebecca Hall, a Ph.D. student at UC Santa Cruz, gives a paper entitled Not Killing Me Softly: African American Women, Slave Revolts, and Historical Constructions of Racialized Gender. Suzette Spencer, another Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley, deal with What Manner of Love Is This on the Edge of Monticello?: Dashing Tom, Dusky Sally, and Contemporary Discourses of Plantation "Romance." Also on the panel were Florence Bellande-Robertson of the Multicultural Women's Press, Miami, Florida; and Helen Pyne-Timothy, Lecturer in Black Studies, UC Santa Barbara.
Program recording date and length: 5-3-02~ 1 Hour 50 Minutes
Racism and Discrimination After Emancipation
Panel 5
The Legacy of Slavery: Unequal Exchange Conference resulted from the passage of Senate Bills 2199 and 1737 in 2000 and was meant to address a number of issues related to the economic and political legacy of slavery, the roles of governments and businesses in this enterprise, and the question of reparations for the descendants of slaves.
This panel discusses the issue of Racism and Discrimination After Emancipation. Brenda Plummer of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, talks about Inter-Ocean: International Protest and the Legacy of Slavery. Richard F. America of Georgetown University discusses Income and Wealth Transfer Effects of Discrimination. Marcus Alexis of Stanford University deals with African-American Economic Performance: A Fifty-Year Report Card. Reginald Daniel of UC Santa Barbara talks about White Into Black: The Politics of Race and Identity in Contempoarary Brazil. Comments on the above talks is made by Eileen Boris, Professor of Women's Studies, UC Santa Barbara. Also on the panel is Michael Brown, Professor, Graduate School of Education, UC Santa Barbara.
Program recording date and length: 5-3-02~ 1 Hour 59 Minutes
Reparations
Panel 6
The Legacy of Slavery: Unequal Exchange Conference resulted from the passage of Senate Bills 2199 and 1737 in 2000 and was meant to address a number of issues related to the economic and political legacy of slavery, the roles of governments and businesses in this enterprise, and the question of reparations for the descendants of slaves.
This panel discusses the issue of Reparations. Howard Dodson, Chief of the Schomburg Center for Research, deals with the topic of What Price Slavery? What Price Freedom? Gerald C. Horne, Professor of History and African/Afro-American Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, talks about Race for Power: Seeking Reparations and the Global Correlation of Forces. Leslie Tick and Natasha Ray, Senior Staff Counsels with the State of California Department of Insurance, deal with The Mandate: Senate Bill 2199. Finally, Adjoa A. Aiyetoro, Chair of the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America, talks about Reparations: Repairing the Consequences of Slavery and the TransAtlantic Slave Trade. Also on the panel was James Noel of the San Francisco Theological Seminary.
Program recording date and length: 5-4-03~ 2 Hours
Teaching Social Justice
Panel 7
The Legacy of Slavery: Unequal Exchange Conference resulted from the passage of Senate Bills 2199 and 1737 in 2000 and was meant to address a number of issues related to the economic and political legacy of slavery, the roles of governments and businesses in this enterprise, and the question of reparations for the descendants of slaves.
This panel discusses the issue of Teaching Social Justice. This session is with teachers from the Santa Barbara School District (Juanita Johnson, Oranne Hilgerman, Tony Jackson, and Ralph Cordova), who talk about the Report on the Middle Passage Curriculum, Center for Black Studies; and a Presentation from the Center for Teaching for Social Justice, Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, UC Santa Barbara. In addition, Sylvia Curtis, Dance and Black Studies Librarian with the University Library, talks about Historical Documentation on the Web: Digitizing Local Collections. Also on the panel are Nichole Williams, Faculty Outreach Coordinator, Black Studies, UC Santa Barbara; and Beth Yeager, Program Coordinator, The Center for Teaching for Social Justice, Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, UC Santa Barbara.
Program recording date and length: 15-4-02 ~ 1 Hour 57 Minutes
Reflections
on the Legacy of Slavery
and Implications for the 21st Century
Charles H. Long, Rapporteur
The Legacy of Slavery: Unequal Exchange Conference resulted from the passage of Senate Bills 2199 and 1737 in 2000 and was meant to address a number of issues related to the economic and political legacy of slavery, the roles of governments and businesses in this enterprise, and the question of reparations for the descendants of slaves.
In the Rapporteur session of the conference, participants hear a talk from Charles Long, who served as Director of the Center for Black Studies and Professor of Religions at UC Santa Barbara from 1991 until he retired in 1996. He has held faculty positions at the University of Chicago, the University of North Carolina, Duke University, and Syracuse, where he also was Director of the Humanities Doctoral Program. He reflects upon the historical introduction of Africans onto the North American landscape and its impact not only on African Americans but Europeans as well. He discusses the creation of wealth in North America and the historical inequalities involved with that wealth. Long argues that the issue of reparations involves not only the specifics of money but more importantly universal values of equality and spirituality. Professor Long deals with the implications of slavery and the controversy over reparations on modern-day American culture and society. Claudine Michel, Professor of Black Studies, UC Santa Barbara, moderates.
Program recording date and length: 5-4-02 ~ 1 Hour 23 Minutes
Trouble
in Mind:
African Americans from Emancipation to the 1990s
Leon Litwack, Keynote Address
The Legacy of Slavery: Unequal Exchange Conference resulted from the passage of Senate Bills 2199 and 1737 in 2000 and was meant to address a number of issues related to the economic and political legacy of slavery, the roles of governments and businesses in this enterprise, and the question of reparations for the descendants of slaves.
In his keynote address, Morrison Professor of History at UC Berkeley and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Leon Litwack, deals with Trouble in Mind: African Americans from Emancipation to the 1990s. Litwack talks about the racist treatment of African Americans, using examples from the Roaring 20s, with lynchings occurring weekly, to World War II, when German soldiers caught by allied troops were treated better than American black soldiers, to the Civil Rights Movement of Post World War II. Professor Litwack uses quotations from African Americans, particularly from blues lyrics, to illustrate his points.
Program recording date and length: 5-4-02 ~ 55 Minutes
