Beyond Slavery
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Slavery in Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Scripture and Religious Law
Christianity, Religion of the Slaveholders and the Enslaved
Sexual Assault and Exploitation Under U.S. Slavery and Jim Crow
How Slavery Has Shaped Our Understandings of Marriage and Friendship
Slavery, Violence, and the State
Conference Videos
Marty Wyngaarden Krauss, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, Welcome
What Is Slavery's Religious and Sexual Legacy?
Bernadette J. Brooten, Opening Address: What is Slavery's Religious and Sexual Legacy?
Nancy Rawles, Prayer for my daughter
Performance: Roots Uprising, Dancing Beloved
Adam Jaffe, Dean of Arts and Sciences, Welcome
How Has Slavery Shaped Our Understandings of Marriage and Friendship?
Gail Labovitz, The Purchase of His Money: Slavery and the Ethics of Jewish Marriage
Kecia Ali, Slavery and Sexual Ethics in Islam
Sexual Assault and Exploitation under Slavery and Jim Crow
Catherine Clinton, Breaking the Silence: Sexual Hypocrisies from Thomas Jefferson to Strom Thurmond
Mia Bay, In Search of Sally Hemings: Slavery and Sexual Agency in the History of the United States
Katani
Lullabies sung by enslaved girls and women in the United States
Christianity: Religion of the Slaveholders and the Enslaved
Jennifer Glancy, Habits of Slavery in Early Christianity
Dwight Hopkins, Slavery, Black Women, and Sexual Justice: A Theological Perspective
Sylvester Johnson, Biblical Debates Over Slavery
Florence Ladd
Mende Nazer
Antislavery activist formerly enslaved in the Sudan
Beyond Slavery: Creating the Conditions for Meaningful Consent to Sexual Intimacy
Adrienne Davis, Reparations for Slavery
Emilie Townes, From Mammy to Welfare Queen: Images of Black Women in Public Policy Formation
Bernadette J. Brooten, Sexual Ethics Untainted by Slaveholding Values
Small-group Session Highlights
Sheila Briggs, Gender, Slavery, and Technology: The Shaping of the Early Christian Moral Imagination
David Wright, "She shall not go free as male slaves do": The Female Debt-Slave in the Hebrew Bible