July+8,+2010

**Today's Agenda**
8:30 a.m. || Coffee Peter Gibbon, Review || 10:30 a.m. || Antebellum Slavery and Histoiography of Slavery, Peter Kolchin Break || 12:00 p.m. || Q & A with Peter Kolchin Lunch || 2:00 p.m. || Introduction to Nat Turner DVD: Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property ||
 * 8:00 a.m. .......
 * 9:00 a.m.
 * 11:00 a.m.
 * 1:00 p.m.
 * 3:00 p.m. || Breakout sessions on Nat Turner ||

NOTES FROM TODAY'S SESSION (P. Kolchin)**
 * [[file:July 8.doc]]

**Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property (California NewsReel, 2002)** media type="custom" key="6510369" Source: http://fora.tv/2009/04/02/Nat_Turner_A_Troublesome_Property

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Some readings on American slavery //Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-bellum South// by Kenneth Stampp (1956) //The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture// by David Brion Davis (1988) //Bury the Chains: The British Struggle to Abolish Slavery// by Adam Hochschild; excellent account of the abolition of the English slave trade //Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery// by Eric Metaxas //Slavery by Another Name: The Re-enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II// by Douglas A. Blackmon (2009) //The Slave Ship: A Human History// by Marcus Rediker (2007) //Confessions of Nat Turner// by William Styron (1967)