Civil War and Emancipation Studies at Temple presents:

Race and Gender in the Era of Emancipation

Saturday February 10, Walk Auditorium, Ritter Annex, Temple Main Campus

8:30 am-9:30 registration and coffee

9:30-11:00:  Representations of Race and Womanhood in the Antebellum Period

Chair:  Richard Newman, Rochester Institute of Technology

Papers: 

Erica Armstrong Dunbar, “Friendship Albums:  The Private Lives of African-American Women before the Civil War”

Sarah Roth, “The Elusive Patty Cannon”

11:00-11:15 break

11:15-12:45:  Engendering Emancipation in the Wartime North  

Chair:  Nathaniel Norment Jr., Chair, African American Studies Department, Temple

Papers:  

Matthew Gallman, “The Abolitionist as Stump Speaker:  Anna Dickinson’s Civil Wars”

Carla L. Peterson, “’A Home Found’?  Harriet Jacobs in New York City”

12:45-1:45 lunch

1:45-4:00:  Contesting the Meanings of Freedom during Reconstruction

Chair:  Bettye Collier-Thomas, History Department, Temple University

Papers:  

Jim Downs, “’Unfit for Freedom’:  Representations of Freedwomen as Violent, Deranged, and Destitute After the Civil War”

Mia Bay, “’The Battle for Womanhood is the Battle for Race’:  Black Women and Racial Thought in the Post-Emancipation Era”

Margaret Bacon, “’The Double Curse of Sex and Color’:  Robert Purvis and Human Rights”

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The Diamond Club, Mitten Hall, Temple Main Campus

5:00-6:00 Reception

6:00-7:00 Dinner

7:00-8:00 Keynote Address by Catherine Clinton:  “’Slavery is War’:  Harriet Tubman and the Civil War”

8:00 farewells