Atlantic Emancipations 200 Years Later.

This years marks the 200th anniversaries of the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade in the United States and the year during which Pennsylvania's gradual emancipation law finally bore fruit. The Library Company of Philadelphia is hosting a conference marking the anniversaries of these events, which will feature some of the most prominent scholars within the field. (the conference website can be viewed here.) The keynote speaker will be Pulitzer Prize winning historian Steven Hahn, author of A Nation Under Our Feet. The conference will also feature other important historians such as Gary Nash. It will be held on April 10-12. It is free and registration is open to the public.