Tours are offered by the Portsmouth Black Heritage Trail and the Harriet Wilson Project respectively. There is an additional fee of $25. More information will be forthcoming.
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Session #2: Black Life in New England

• Barbara White - The Walkers of Worchester
• Joanne Pope Melish - "The Prejudice of Tradition:" Paul Cuffee, William J. Brown, and the Changing Racial Landscape of Early 19th-Century New England
• Craig Wilder - "Abolitionist in Sentiment, But Not in Conduct:" Race, Politics, and the American College, 1828-1840
• Kristin Waters - "Crying Out for Liberty." Concepts of Freedom & Equity in the Early Abolition Movement

Lunch Speaker

Session #3: Black Cultural Expressions in New England

• Napoleon Jones Henderson - Blues and the Abstract Truth: Color in Blackness
• Delia Konzett - Revisiting the Past and Re-imagining the Future: Revisionary Representations of Black New England in Contemporary American Cinema
• Larry Benaquist - Lost Boundaries

Session #4: Early Black New England

• Dinah Mayo-Bobee - Servile Discontents: Slavery and Resistance in Colonial New Hampshire, 1645-1785
• Eric Kimball - Far Beyond the Shores: The Centrality of Caribbean Slave Labor in the Making of Colonial Connecticut
• Kathryn Grover - African American Settlement Patterns in New England to 1860

Keynote Address & Opening Reception (MUB Theatre 1)

• James Campbell - Navigating the Past: Reflections on Brown University's Steering Committee on Slavery & Justice

Session #5: New England, Africa, and the Caribbean

• Willi Coleman - Sarah Parker Remond ... "hot lead to pour on the Americans."
• Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban - Discovering and Recovering a 19th century Pioneering Haitian Scholar in Rhode Island
• James Campbell - Back to Africa? The Politics of Black Repatriation in Post Revolutionary New England
• Denise Gonsalves - Cape Verdeans: Uncovering a Hidden Community

Session #6   Social Memories, Memorials, and Trails

• Frances Jones Sneed - Du Bois and African American Heritage in the Upper Housatonic Valley
• Deborah Mack - Uncomfortable Truths: New England and slavery in public dialogue and public culture
• Wells Staley-Mays & Daniel Minter - Maine's Freedom Trails

Lunch Speaker

• Joanne Pope Melish, A Racial Vernacular: Language and Self-Definition in Post-Slavery New England

Session #7   Teacher's Workshop
Researching and Teaching Local Black History

• David Watters (Town Histories)
• Valerie Cunningham (Rock Rest)
• JerriAnne Boggis (Wilson)