Loyalist Research Network Members present research at CHA

The Loyalist Research Network is sponsoring a panel at the meetings of the Canadian Historical Association in Fredericton (29 May-1 June 2011). Our session is panel #42 as follows:

Recruitment, Rebellion and Historical Memory: Loyalist Responses in the Carolinas and New Brunswick during the American Revolution / Recrutement, rébellion et mémoire historique : Réponses royalistes dans les Carolines et au Nouveau-Brunswick durant la Révolution américaine

Carole Watterson Troxler, Elon University, North Carolina
Cornwallis’ Complaints and the Historical Memory of Loyalist Response in the Southern Backcountry

Todd Braisted, United Empire Loyalist Association of Canada
New elements to understanding the recruitment of Provincial Regiments during the American Revolution

Gary Campbell, Independent Scholar
Rebellion Suppressed: New Brunswick’s Role in the American Revolution

Facilitator / Animateur : Amani Whitfield, University of Vermont
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Other panels of interest to LRN members include sessions #13 and #82:

13. Slavery, Law and Loyalty / L’esclavage, la Loi et la loyauté

Kristi Gourlay, University of Ottawa
Habeas Corpus and the Rights of Man: Re-thinking Slavery during the Scottish Enlightenment

Amani Whitfield, University of Vermont
The Culture of Slavery and Slave Culture in Maritime Canada after the Revolution, 1783-1820

Krista Kesselring, Dalhousie University
‘Negroes of the Crown’: The Management of Slaves Forfeited by Grenadian
Rebels, 1796-1838

Sharon Romeo, University of Alberta
‘An Action Brought to Recover Her Freedom’: Freedom Suits and Involuntary
Servitude in the Upper-Midwest of the United States

Facilitator / Animateur : Richard Connors, University of Ottawa
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81. The New History of Loyalism in the British Atlantic World / La nouvelle histoire du loyalisme dans le monde atlantique britannique

Jerry Bannister, Dalhousie University
Revolution in the Loyalist Era: The Remaking of British America, 1745-1800

Liam Riordan, University of Maine
Loyalist Unity and Diversity: Comparative Colonialism and the Shaping of
‘English’ Canada

Brad Jones, California State University, Fresno
Stamps and Loyalty: a case study of the limits of political mobilization in Halifax, Nova Scotia and Kingston, Jamaica

Facilitator / Animatrice : TBA
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For the full program, see http://www.chashcacommittees-comitesa.ca/AGM/cha_shc2011/programme.html