Documenting Venture Smith Conference

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Book Signing

Conference
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Beecher House Center
for the Study of
Equal Rights

University of Connecticut

Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and
Emancipation

BBC Audio Clips

Interview with Prof David Richardson

Paul Murphy's Audioblog

David Richardson's Diary Day One

David Richardson's Diary Day Two

BBC Video Clips

Paul Murphy Reports from Connecticut

African Blessing Ceremony

Project Progress Report

A Project Setback

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Book Exhibit & Signing

The UConn Co-op will feature a selection of books on slavery, Venture Smith and related topics at the conference. Books by several of the conference speakers will be available for autographing by the authors. The Co-op, which serves the University of Connecticut, is located in the center of campus at 2075 Hillside Road. In addition to browsing the tables at the conference, participants are invited to visit. The store features a large selection of books on Connecticut history and early American history. www.bookstore.uconn.edu

Following are the authors and books that will be available for book signing during the lunch and poster session 12:00pm - 2:00pm:

	Vincent Carretta Unchained Voices: An Anthology of Black Authors in the English-Speaking World of the Eighteenth Century Equiano - The Equiano, The African, Biography of a Self-Made Man
	Paul Lovejoy The Biography of Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua: His Passage from Slavery to Freedom in Africa and America Slavery on the Frontiers of Islam Slavery, Commerce and Production in West Africa: Slave Society in the Sokoto Caliphate Ecology and Ethnography of Muslim Trade in West Africa
	James O. and Lois Horton Black Bostonians: Family Life and Community Struggle in the Antebellum North Hard Road to Freedom: The Story of African America - Book Review A History of the African American People Slavery and the Making of America
	David Brion Davis Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World
	Akusua Perbi A History of Indigenous Slavery in Ghana
	John Sweet Bodies Politic: Negotiating Race in the American North, 1730–1830 Envisioning an English Empire: Jamestown and the Making of the North Atlantic World
	James Stewart Holy Warriers: The Abolitionists and American Slavery To Heal the Sourge of Prejudice: The Life and Writings of Hosea Easton