Yale Bulletin and Calendar

October 15, 2004|Volume 33, Number 7

20th-century slavery is focus of
Gilder Lehrman Center conference

The Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale will hold its sixth annual conference, "From Chattel Bondage to State Servitude: Slavery in the 20th Century," on Friday-Saturday, Oct. 22-23, 2004.

Speakers at the conference will contrast and compare traditional chattel slavery with various examples of 20th-century state slavery, ranging from the coerced labor enforced by Nazi Germany and Communist Russia and China, to the chain gangs and penal servitude in the Jim Crow South. They will also describe and analyze some of the forms of massive and unusual forced labor that arose and flourished for a century following the outlawing of slavery in the western hemisphere, as symbolized by Brazil's final act of abolition in 1888.

Speakers will include Suzanne Miers, Kevin Bales, David Oshinsky, Rebecca Scott, Francis Deng, Michael Allen, David J. Nordlander, Jeffrey Ferguson, Laura J. Lederer, and others.

For more information and to register online, go to www.yale.edu/glc/events/conf.html.

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