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THE ATLANTIC WORLD AND AFRICAN AMERICAN LIFE AND CULTURE IN THE GEORGIA LOWCOUNTRY: 18TH TO THE 20TH CENTURY

Symposium February 27-29, 2008
Savannah, Georgia

Speakers

Emory Campbell, Former Executive Director, Penn Center, St. Helena Island. Recognized for his lifelong work preserving Gullah language and heritage and improving the conditions of the Gullah community in South Carolina and Georgia. One of the translators of the New Testament into Gullah, De Nyew Testament (2006).

Topic: A Sense of Self and Place: Unmasking the Mystiques of My Gullah Cultural Heritage.

Photo courtesy of Pete Marovich/Carolina Morning News

Erskine Clarke, Professor of American religious history, Columbia Theological Seminary, author of Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic (2005), Our Southern Zion: A History of Calvinism in the Carolina Low Country, 1690-1990 (1996). Recipient of the Bancroft Prize in History for 2006.

Topic: “They Shun the Scrutiny of White Men:” Reports on Religion from the Georgia Lowcountry and West Africa, 1834-1850.

Allison Dorsey, Swarthmore College, author of To Build Our LivesTogether: Community Formation in Black Atlanta, 1875-1906 (2004). Member, the editorial board of Southern Spaces.

Topic: “The Great Cry of Our People Is Land:” Black Settlement and Community on Ossabaw Island.

Michael Gomez, New York University. Author of Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South (1998) and Black Crescent: The Experience and Legacy of African Muslims in the Americas (2005).

Topic: Africans, Culture and Islam in the Lowcountry.

Jacqueline Jones, Brandeis University, author of Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work and the Family, from Slavery to the Present (1985) and Soldiers of Light and Love: Northern Teachers and Georgia Blacks, 1865-1873. Recipient of the Bancroft Prize.

Topic: Savannah’s Confederate Project: Forging an Alliance between Elites and the White Laboring Classes in the Civil War Era.

Philip D. Morgan, Johns Hopkins University, former editor of the William & Mary Quarterly, author of Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake & Lowcountry (1998), recipient of the 1998 Bancroft Prize.

Topic: The Lowcountry and the Early Modern Atlantic World.

Timothy B. Powell, University of Pennsylvania, author of Beyond the Binary: Reconstructing Cultural Identity in a Multicultural Context.

Theresa A. Singleton, Archaeologist, Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University. A curator in Historical Archaeology at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Author of The Archaeology of Slavery and Plantation Life (1992); editor of "I, Too, Am American:" Archaeological Studies of African American life.

Topic: Archaeology of the Gullah-Geechee: Connecting the past to the present

Betty Wood, Lecturer in History at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge. Author of Slavery in Colonial Georgia (1984), Women’s Work, Men’s Work: The Informal Slave Economies of Lowcountry Georgia (1995) and Gender, Race and Rank in a Revolutionary Age: The Georgia Lowcountry, 1750-1820 (2000).

Topic: Lowcountry Women of Color During the Era of the American Revolution, 1765-1800.

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