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 Presenters
- Kecia Ali, Boston University
- Married Female Slaves in early Islamic Law
- Ellen Barry, Prison rights activist
- Marginalized Women in United States Prisons: Enslavement of the Oppressed
- Mia Bay, Rutgers University
- In Search of Sally Hemings: Slavery and Sexual Agency in the History of the American South
- Debra Blumenthal, University of California, Santa Barbara
- "As if she were his wife": Slavery and Sexual Ethics in late medieval Spain
- Fay Botham, Le Moyne College
- Anti-miscegenation Statues: Roman Catholic and Protestant Theologies of Marriage and Race
- Sheila Briggs, University of Southern California
- Gender, Slavery, and Technology: The Shaping of the Early Christian Moral Imagination
- Bernadette Brooten, Brandeis University
- Sexual Ethics Untainted by Slaveholding Values
- Catherine Clinton, Yale University
- Breaking the Silence: Sexual Hypocrisies from Thomas Jefferson to Strom Thurmond
- Adrienne Davis, University of North Carolina Law School
- Miscegenation and Morality: The Contemporary Politics and Racial Meanings of Marriage
- Frances Smith Foster, Emory University
- Call me, "Mrs": Motherhood, Marriage, and (sexual) Morality in 19th century African America
- Jennifer Glancy, Lemoyne College
- Habits of Slavery in Early Christianity
- Dwight Hopkins, Brandeis University
- "She shall not go free as male slaves do": The Female Debt-Slave in the Hebrew Bible
- Sylvester Johnson, Indiana University
- Biblical Debates Over Slavery
- Wilma King, University of Missouri, Columbia
- "He said he would give us some flowers": Sexual Violations, Girls, and the Law in the Antebellum South
- Gail Labovitz, University of Judaism
- The Purchase of His Money: Slavery and the Ethics of Jewish Marriage
- Florence Ladd, Award-winning novelist and poet
- Original Poetry
- Linda McClain, Hofstra University School of Law
- Abstinence-Plus Sex Education: The Best Model for Free Citizens
- Mende Nazer, Antislavery activist formerly enslaved in Sudan
- A Formerly Enslaved Woman Responds to the History of Slavery and to Religious Teachings on It
- Nancy Rawles, Award-winning novelist
- Prayer for my daughter (Poem)
- Dorothy Roberts, Northwestern University School of Law
- The Paradox of Silence and Display: Sexual Violence of Enslaved Women and Contemporary Contradictions in Black Female Sexuality
- Barbara Savage, University of Pennsylvania
- The Same-Sex Marriage Debate in the African American Churches: A Historical Perspective
- Emilie Townes, Yale Divinity School
- From Mammy to Welfare Queen: Images of Black Women in Public Policy Formation
- David Wright, Brandeis University
- "She shall not go free as male slaves do": The Female Debt-Slave in the Hebrew Bible