American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “Comparative Approaches to the Law of Slavery and Freedom: Lessons from Alejandro de la Fuente and Ariela Gross, Becoming Free, Becoming Black,” November 6, 2021 @ 9:00 – 10:30 am

9:00 AM – 10:30 AM

Comparative Approaches to the Law of Slavery and Freedom: Lessons from Alejandro de la Fuente and Ariela Gross, Becoming Free, Becoming Black (Melpomene)

Chairs: Rebecca Scott, University of Michigan (rjscott@umich.edu) and Martha Jones, Johns Hopkins University (msjonz@jhu.edu)

Authors: Ariela Gross, University of Southern California (agross@law.usc.edu) and Alejandro delaFuente, Harvard Universitye (delafuente@fas.harvard.edu)

Jean Hébrard, Johns Hopkins University (jhebrard@ehess.fr) Comparative Slavery and Freedom: Saint-Domingue and Brazil

Adriana Chira, Emory University (adriana.chira@emory.edu) Comparative Slavery and Freedom: Cuba

Alexandra Havrylyshyn, University of California, Berkeley (ahavry@berkeley.edu) Comparative Slavery and Freedom: Louisiana

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