Hello Everyone,

I am organizing a symposium session proposal for the SAAs in Chicago next
spring, March 30- April 3, 2022, on post-abolition labor and communities
with a worldwide perspective. We would still like to add a few more papers
to our session, and I include the session abstract below for your
consideration.

If you are interested in contributing a 15-minute paper, please
contact me directly
(Johanna Pacyga: [log in to unmask]). Titles and abstracts are requested
by September 3rd, in advance of the SAA registration deadline. Once I have
the full roster of participants, I will submit the session through the
SAA’s online system and invite you to submit your finalized abstract by the
September 9th submission deadline.

Best,
Johanna Pacyga

*Post-abolition Labor and Communities, A Global View from the Plantation &
Beyond*

Slave labor and plantation economies has been one of historical
archaeology’s primary topics. In recent years, growing attention has been
given to nineteenth-century post-abolition and post-emancipation labor and
communities, particularly those associated with (former) plantations in the
United States and the Caribbean. This session considers post-abolition
labor from a broader global perspective. Attending to post-abolition labor
and societies across different geographies, this session seeks to think
comparatively about the reorientations of labor, colonial and post-colonial
economies, and new types of communities that emerged in the aftermath of
different moments of modern abolition. How does the experience of
post-abolition labor compare between the Indian Ocean and the Caribbean,
between South America and West Africa? How can we think of the similarities
of experience between these areas, as well as the vast differences? In what
ways does thinking beyond the confines of an individual European empire
expand or shift the conversation? This session is particularly concerned
with the relationship of post-abolition economies and labor to social
networks and communities (including the rise of indentured labor). That is,
looking beyond the restructuring of labor and markets that abolition and
emancipation manifested and emphasizing the manner in which this
restructuring remade communities, places, and social life.

-- 
Johanna A. Pacyga
Ph.D.
Department of Anthropology
University of Chicago
[log in to unmask]

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