The 2nd Wilberforce International Conference On Slave Narratives
Consolidating Our Gains: Strategizing For The 21st Century
Wilberforce, Ohio, October 11-13, 2001

 2:00-3:15 PM

Susanna Ashton, Clemson University
"Signs of the Mine: Booker T. Washington and the Play of Literacy"

Leland Giovanelli, University of Colorado
" The Path Pointed Out in the Narrative of the Live of Frederick Douglass"

Timothy Patrick McCarthy, Harvard University
" ' Racial' Migrations: Abolitionist Print Culture and the Ordeal of Integration"

Paul Lovejoy, York University, Toronto, Canada
"The Interesting Narrative of Mahoummah Gardo Barquaqua of Djougou(1854): A Christian in Muslim Clothing"

Funso Oluyitan, Wilberforce University
"Faith in Spirituality: From Slavery to Civil Rights Movement"

Celeste-Marie Bernier, School of American and Canadian Studies,
University of Nottingham, England
"Arms Like Polished Iron": The Black Slave Body in Narratives of the Creole Revolt (1841)"

Biman Basu, Hobart and William Smith College
"Slave Desires Beyond the Topography of Slavery"

Carol Taylor-Johnson, West Virginia State College
"African-Americans and Domesticity: From Lean-To to Model Home"

Steve Buckridge, Grand Valley State University
"Africa and the Caribbean: Dress as a Cultural Link Among Jamaican Slave Women"

Efuetnkeng Fomin, University of Buea, Cameroon
" Gender Slavery in Nweh Country in Cameroon (1800-1970)"

Marcy Tanter, Tarleton State University, Stephenville, Texas
"The Depiction of Women Slaves in the Narratives of Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown and Matthew Lewis"

4:30-5:45 PM

Ella Davis, Wayne State University
Marlene Chavis, Wayne County Community College
Dawn Cooper Barnes, Howard Community College
Regina Jones, Michigan State University

Hellen O'Neal-McCray, Wilberforce University
Et al

9:00-10:15 AM

Renee Schatteman, Georgia State University
"Ethical Dilemmas and the Use of Deception in African American Slave Narratives"

Immaculate Kizza, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga
"African-American Slave Narratives: Beyond Literary Discourse"

Julie Godin, University of Ottawa, Canada
"Beauty Unarranged and Ever-changing': Urban Texts and Circulating Voices of Slavery"

Jerome Handler, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
"Survivors of the Middle Passage: Life Histories of Enslaved Africans in British America:

Karcheik Sims-Alvarado, Clark-Atlanta University
"To Emigrate or Not to Emigrate: The Attitudes of Free and Black Enslaved Georgians on the Subject of African Colonization, 1832-1865"

S. Morris, Wilberforce University
"Arriving on a Nightmare: Recognizing Connections Between U.S. Slavery and the U.S. Prison System"/ Present-Day Impacts of the U.S. Slave Trade

1:00-3:00 PM

William L. Andrews, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Wilma King, University of Missouri
Peter W. Bardaglio, Goucher College
Edward E. Baptist, University of Miami
Phillip D. Troutman, Duke University

3:30-4:45 PM

Joseph McLaren, Hofstra University
"The Language of the Classic and Neo-Slave Narrative"

Kristine Yohe, Northern Kentucky University
"A Contemporary Haitian Slave Narrative: Jean-Robert Cadet's 'RESTAVEC' "

Felicity Turner, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia
"Writing the Silences: Toni Morrison's Beloved and Fred D'Aguar's The Longest Memory

Eileen Eslinger, DePaul University
"The Frustrated Freedom of a Former Slave and Her Family (Maria Cooper)"

Shirlene Holmes, Georgia State University
"Going Down in the Self: Slave Narratives and Sacred Texts and Creating Historical Plays for Contemporary Audiences"