Professional Activities
Conference Roles
- 'The reputation of the slave trader', by Invitation (British Association for American Studies, 2007)
- 'White antebellum mindsets and the commodification of enslaved black people', by Invitation (Organization of American Historians, 2007)
- Chair and comment, by Invitation (Southern Historical Association, 2005)
- Chair for session, by Invitation (National Museums, Liverpool, 2005)
- 'The significance of the domestic slave trade for understanding American slavery and the South', by Invitation (Organization of American Historians, 2003)
- 'Beyond the web of paternalism: owners, "key slaves," and the community of slaves', by Invitation (Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (US) and British American Nineteenth Century Historians (UK), 2003)
- 'The domestic slave trade', by Invitation (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (New York), 2002)
- Eugene Genovese and the idea of paternalism, by Invitation (American Historical Association, 1999)
- The domestic slave trade, by Invitation (Gilder Lehrman Institute, Yale University, 1999)
- Slaveholder reminiscences and the social memory of slavery, by Invitation (University of South Carolina, 1999)
- Class, 'race,' and slavery, by Invitation (Anglo-American Conference of Historians, 1999)