{"id":26641,"date":"2012-11-24T01:01:08","date_gmt":"2012-11-24T01:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=26641"},"modified":"2012-11-24T01:01:08","modified_gmt":"2012-11-24T01:01:08","slug":"life-stories-local-places-and-the-networks-of-free-women-of-color-in-early-north-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=26641","title":{"rendered":"Life Stories, Local Places, and the Networks of Free Women of Color in Early North America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/aha.confex.com\/aha\/2013\/webprogram\/Session7747.html\" target=\"_blank\">Life Stories, Local Places, and the Networks of Free Women of Color in Early North America<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.historians.org\/annual\/2013\/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">127th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association<\/a><br \/>\nNew Orleans, Louisiana<br \/>\n2013-01-03 through 2013-01-06<\/p>\n<p>AHA Session 72<br \/>\nFriday, 2013-01-04: 08:30-10:00 CST (Local Time)<br \/>\nPreservation Hall, Studio 7 (New Orleans Marriott)<\/p>\n<p>Chair: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.utexas.edu\/cola\/depts\/history\/faculty\/db27553\" target=\"_blank\">Daina Ramey Berry<\/a><\/strong>, <em>University of Texas, Austin<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/aha.confex.com\/aha\/2013\/webprogram\/Paper10561.html\" target=\"_blank\">Life Stories, Local Knowledge, and the Law in Eighteenth-Century North America<\/a>\u201d \/ <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/amst.fullerton.edu\/faculty\/t_snyder.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Terri L. Snyder<\/a><\/strong>, <em>California State University, Fullerton<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/aha.confex.com\/aha\/2013\/webprogram\/Paper10562.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u201c\u2018Refugee from St. Domingue Living in This City\u2019: The Geography of Social Networks in Testaments of Refugee Free Women of Color in New Orleans<\/a>\u201d \/ <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wm.edu\/as\/americanstudies\/graduate\/graddirectory\/neidenbach_e.php\" target=\"_blank\">Elizabeth Neidenbach<\/a><\/strong>, <em>College of William and Mary<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/aha.confex.com\/aha\/2013\/webprogram\/Paper10560.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Power of Priscilla\u2019s Upper Room: Gender and the African American Public Sphere in the 1830s<\/a>\u201d \/ <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unomaha.edu\/history\/faculty\/wood.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sharon E. Wood<\/a><\/strong>, <em>University of Nebraska, Omaha<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Comment: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/college.wfu.edu\/history\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty\/anthony-parent\/\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony S. Parent<\/a><\/strong>, <em>Wake Forest University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The three papers included in this panel share several themes significant to new directions in the history of women of color in North America and the Caribbean.<\/p>\n<p>First, all three papers are concerned with the importance of networks, and the relationship between networks and localities.\u00a0 In these papers, networks sustain women\u2019s claims to freedom, and networks are closely associated with places.\u00a0 Terri Snyder finds, for example, that Jane Webb and her daughter Elisha strengthened their positions in 18th century courtrooms\u2013rarely hospitable to women of color\u2013by drawing on local knowledge to support their claims to justice.\u00a0 For Elisha, her mother\u2019s networks in Virginia eventually intervened to secure her freedom in New Hampshire.\u00a0 Elizabeth Neidenbach\u2019s research in the wills of refugees from St. Domingue uncovers women\u2019s networks expressed in the streets and neighborhoods of New Orleans\u2013networks that reach back to the island home left behind.\u00a0 Not only did these networks help refugee women survive, they played a significant role in shaping the culture of the city.\u00a0 Finally, Sharon Wood\u2019s research underscores the importance of African American-controlled space to the emergence of a black public sphere.\u00a0 Property in Illinois owned by Priscilla, a former slave, became the meeting place when leading white men of St. Louis sought to suppress African American organizing by shutting off their access to space.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Finally, all three papers are concerned with methodologies of doing history and biography at the intersections of race and gender in early North America. Focusing on relatively ordinary women of color, each paper aims to recover the lives of particular women and integrate them into history. Until very recently, it has been a truism that the life stories of unlettered, enslaved, and free women of color of the 17th, 18th, and early 19th centuries must remain unwritten because the sources to uncover their lives did not exist. Yet each of these papers, by imaginative use of primary sources and diligent linking of records across national, colonial, and state borders, challenges that claim, giving voice and flesh to women whose lives would otherwise remain fragmented among scattered documents.<\/p>\n<p>This session addresses audiences interested in the histories of women, slavery and freedom, and geographical and biographical approaches to history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life Stories, Local Places, and the Networks of Free Women of Color in Early North America 127th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association New Orleans, Louisiana 2013-01-03 through 2013-01-06 AHA Session 72 Friday, 2013-01-04: 08:30-10:00 CST (Local Time) Preservation Hall, Studio 7 (New Orleans Marriott) Chair: Daina Ramey Berry, University of Texas, Austin Papers: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[459,13,369,14,6940,20,693,25],"tags":[12814,1730,3405,3403,12854,12851,1438,12852,12853,12849,12850],"class_list":["post-26641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-liveevents","category-louisiana","category-papers","category-slavery","category-usa","category-virginia","category-women","tag-127th-annual-meeting-of-the-american-historical-association","tag-american-historical-association","tag-anthony-parent","tag-anthony-s-parent","tag-daina-ramey-berry","tag-elizabeth-neidenbach","tag-new-orleans","tag-sharon-e-wood","tag-sharon-wood","tag-terri-l-snyder","tag-terri-snyder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}