‘Atlantic Migration During Slavery: Part 1’

By Mike Porter

The Alexandrian Society of the Department of History at Virginia Commonwealth University will present a daylong symposium on the era of slavery. 

“Atlantic Migration During Slavery: Part 1” takes place on Wednesday, April 27, from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the University Student Commons Theater, 907 Floyd Ave. The symposium includes scholarly discussions about Atlantic migration, women, diseases and interracial households during the era of slavery.

Participating scholars include:

·          Paul Lovejoy, Ph.D., distinguished research professor and director of the Harriet Tubman Institute, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. “Out of Africa: Atlantic Migration During Slavery.”

·          Ronald Johnson, Ph.D., M. Div., assistant professor, Texas State University. “Merchant on the Move: Marie Bunel and Atlantic Migration in the Age of Revolutions.”

·          Edward Rugemer, Ph.D., assistant professor, Yale University. “Resistance, Race, and the Law: The Expansion of Slavery in England’s Greater Caribbean Empire during the 17th Century.”

·          Daniel Livesay, Ph.D., NEH Postdoctoral Fellow, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Va. “The War over the Imperial Family: Interracial Households Crossing Between Jamaica and Britain in the Mid-Eighteenth Century.”

·          Katherine Paugh, Ph.D., assistant professor, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. “Yaws and Syphilis: Cultures of Disease in the Atlantic World, 1600-1833.”

·          Rebecca Schloss, Ph.D., associate professor, Texas A&M. “Crossing the Waters: Women, Family, and Migration in the Early Nineteenth-Century French Atlantic.”

·          John Powers, Ph.D., collateral assistant professor, assistant director, Science, Technology, and Society Program, VCU. “Smallpox in the Old and New Worlds: Framing Disease in the Eighteenth Century.”


The symposium is presented by the Alexandrian Society of the VCU Department of History; the College of Humanities and Sciences; the Science, Technology and Society Program; the Honors College and the VCU Student Government Association. For more information, contact the Alexandrian Society at alexsociety@vcu.edu.