Here is the first panel in the CUNY Conference on Abolition from 2014. The conference was called “The Antislavery Bulwark.” The video of the panel is below. These are mostly young scholars presenting on Abolition’s origins and the eradication of slavery in the North.
SESSION ONE: ANTISLAVERY IN THE REVOLUTIONARY AND EARLY NATIONAL PERIODS
Presiding: Christopher Brown, Columbia University
This Species of Property: Slavery, Subjecthood, and the Somerset Decision
John Blanton, CUNY Graduate Center
The Making of an Antislavery Generation: The Children of Gradual Emancipation, Antislavery Legal Culture, and the “General” Abolition of 1827
Sarah Levine-Gronningsater, McNeil Center for Early American Studies/California Institute of Technology
The Origins of the Cordon of Freedom: The Radicalism of Rufus King’s Missouri Crisis Speeches
David Gary, Yale University
