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SUMMARY:Richards Center Manuscript Workshop with John Craig Hammond
DESCRIPTION:\nThe Richards Center will host our first community manuscri
pt workshop this semester featuring John Craig Hammond. Hammond is curre
ntly professor of history at Penn State New Kensington\, and he will be
joining the history faculty at University Park in fall 2027. His researc
h focuses on empire\, enslavement\, and emancipation in North America be
tween 1750 and 1860\, and on the politics of slavery in the United State
s between 1770 and 1830. His most recent work is The Centrality of Slave
ry: Empire and Enslavement in Colonial Illinois and Missouri (University
of Pennsylvania Press\, 2025).\n\nThe group will be workshopping\, “Sla
veholders\, Speculators\, and A Farmer of St. Charles County: George Chu
rchill’s Missouri and Illinois Crises\, 1818–1824\,” which is currently
under review with a scholarly journal. “Slaveholders\, Speculators\, and
a Farmer” uses the writings and experiences of farmer and printer Georg
e Churchill to examine conflicts over slavery in Illinois and Missouri b
etween 1818 and 1824. More specifically\, it examines how Churchill arri
ved at his antislavery convictions in Missouri. It then examines how Chu
rchill built an antislavery political coalition in Illinois in 1818 duri
ng the run-up to the state constitutional convention. It then shows how
Churchill shifted his attention to slavery and statehood in Missouri\, c
ontrasting Churchill’s popular antislavery politics with the kinds of pr
o-slavery politics forged by small enslavers and speculators in Missouri
. It concludes by focusing on the ways in which Churchill and others shi
fted their focus to defeating efforts to open Illinois to slavery betwee
n 1820 and 1824. It argues that Churchill’s experiences allow historians
to understand how and why the Illinois and Missouri Crisis produced suc
h different outcomes. In addition\, Churchill’s actions illustrate how o
rdinary opponents of slavery fashioned effective antislavery political c
oalitions. At the same time\, Churchill’s failures to spark a popular an
tislavery movement in Missouri demonstrates how ordinary enslavers blunt
ed popular antislavery movements\, and then forged their own pro-slavery
political coalitions in Missouri.\n\nFor more details: https://events.l
a.psu.edu/event/rcwec-manuscript-workshop-hammond/
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Richards Ce
nter will host our first community manuscript workshop this semester fea
turing John Craig Hammond. Hammond is currently professor of history at
Penn State New Kensington, and he will be joining the history faculty at
University Park in fall 2027. His research focuses on empire, enslaveme
nt, and emancipation in North America between 1750 and 1860, and on the
politics of slavery in the United States between 1770 and 1830. His most
recent work is The Centrality of Slavery: Empire and Enslavement in
Colonial Illinois and Missouri (University of Pennsylvania Press,
2025).
The group will be workshopping, “Slaveholders, Speculators,
and A Farmer of St. Charles County: George Churchill’s Missouri and Ill
inois Crises, 1818–1824,” which is currently under review with a scholar
ly journal. “Slaveholders, Speculators, and a Farmer” uses the writings
and experiences of farmer and printer George Churchill to examine confli
cts over slavery in Illinois and Missouri between 1818 and 1824. More sp
ecifically, it examines how Churchill arrived at his antislavery convict
ions in Missouri. It then examines how Churchill built an antislavery po
litical coalition in Illinois in 1818 during the run-up to the state con
stitutional convention. It then shows how Churchill shifted his attentio
n to slavery and statehood in Missouri, contrasting Churchill’s popular
antislavery politics with the kinds of pro-slavery politics forged by sm
all enslavers and speculators in Missouri. It concludes by focusing on t
he ways in which Churchill and others shifted their focus to defeating e
fforts to open Illinois to slavery between 1820 and 1824. It argues that
Churchill’s experiences allow historians to understand how and why the
Illinois and Missouri Crisis produced such different outcomes. In additi
on, Churchill’s actions illustrate how ordinary opponents of slavery fas
hioned effective antislavery political coalitions. At the same time, Chu
rchill’s failures to spark a popular antislavery movement in Missouri de
monstrates how ordinary enslavers blunted popular antislavery movements,
and then forged their own pro-slavery political coalitions in Missouri.
For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/rcwec-manu
script-workshop-hammond/
LOCATION:102 Weaver Building
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