The Richards Center community will workshop an article by Isaac Guzmán, Richards Center Predoctoral Fellow and Ph.D. candidate at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, titled “Power in Two Parts: Slavery and the Law in Proprietary South Carolina, 1669–1691.” This article examines how slavery emerged as a structure of power in colonial South Carolina through a close reading of the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina and the slave code of 1691. It argues that the slave code of 1691 gave tangible expression to the Fundamental Constitutions’ conception of power. In so doing, this article demonstrates how colonial lawmakers transformed abstract notions of absolute power and authority into concrete practices of surveillance, coercion, and violence.