At mic: conf attendee and descendant of slaves disc imp of scholarship for descendant communities #SlaveryMV

.@brettrushforth on a lil kvetching on social media (no!) beforehand abt what wasn't on this program - turns out a lot of it was #SlaveryMV

.@ProfJLMorgan comment on impt of studying "the people who were there" #SlaveryMV

Final session now open to the floor for comments and questions - #SlaveryMV

Berlin: can region and nation be useful? Q of analytical terms and tools - #SlaveryMV

Furstenberg encourages modesty & collaboration - emphasis on brand new interpretations ignores at peril the deep scholarly past #SlaveryMV

Furstenberg: nation lurked here but no clear utility or way to engage - obv how to avoid teleology of nation making -what then? #SlaveryMV

Furstenberg: can histories now be invigorated by political urgency in the ways that 70s work inspired by civil rights #SlaveryMV

Furstenberg: 80s anxiety abt wholes and parts - what abt national history? Apocalyptic? #SlaveryMV

(Me here) on @ProfLMH and Sidbury -deeply invested in @OIEAHC contributing to supporting scholars/ scholarship as we keep moving #SlaveryMV

Sidbury: in studying those laws treatises cases letters we have not looked at ideas values priorities of enslaved but structures #SlaveryMV

Sidbury: we don't understand race and slavery in Jamaica or Ohio or VA when we study laws treatises court cases #SlaveryMV

Sidbury: @samsmacy and Shauna Sweeney ideas abt ideas values practices of enslaved ppl #SlaveryMV

Sidbury: what was absent. Lots on law and economic processes and abt powerful ppl was here BUT #SlaveryMV

.@ProfLMH says we need more and competing stories of founders and slavery #SlaveryMV

.@ProfLMH we don't need to ever hear again that there are no sources for investigating slavery and race #SlaveryMV

.@ProfLMH sources are key - shoutout to archivists and editors willing to newly see - ex @John_Jay_Papers #SlaveryMV

.@ProfLMH how far can we move forward in time to address these key questions and still be #vastearlyamerica #SlaveryMV

.@ProfLMH scholars of native and African slavery here but cd have been crossing panels more - need to not create more silos #SlaveryMV

.@ProfLMH abt @ProfMSinha book - "boom!" Refs nuanced histories of early abolition #SlaveryMV

.@ProfLMH using this iconic British American site (MV) to show how inadequate is just British America = America #SlaveryMV

.@ProfLMH refs signal imp of scholarship on slavery and race w chronologies early & geography broad -multi imperial slaveries #SlaveryMV

Final session begins w @ProfLMH - thoughts on program - begins w generations of scholars here Berlin, Walsh and Ph.D. Students #SlaveryMV

Note abt sig of program chair Ira Berlin scholarship inc the multi awarded Many Thousands Gone -#SlaveryMV

Am tweeting fr my phone this am at #SlaveryMV apologies in advance for fumbles

And including impt essay by @lbofflesh #SlaveryMV

Discussed in multiple sessions, inc Lorena Walsh's, at #SlaveryMV - and was in the mailbox when I got home last night. #karma

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One more cup of tea- final morning for #SlaveryMV begins w reflection and information at the Slave Burial Ground www.mountvernon.org/digital-encyclopedia/art...

Back tomorrow AM w reflections on last days & looking ahead. Thanks to live-tweeters & contributions fr twittererverse #SlaveryMV

Yes, she did say that. #SlaveryMV