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SUMMARY:DATE CANCELLED: Contested Foundations: Commemorating the Red Letter
  Year of 1619\, Conference 3:  “Respectable Women”: Gender\, Family\, 
 Labor\, Resistance\, and the Metanarrative of Patriarchy [DAY 2]
DESCRIPTION:This event has been adapted to a one day online event.\nThere w
 ill no longer be a second day to this conference.\n\n\n\n—organized by B
 renda E. Stevenson (University of California\, Los Angeles) and Sharla M. 
 Fett (Occidental College)\n\nThe year 1619 was designated as the red-lette
 r year in Virginia\, the first permanent colony in British North America\,
  for three reasons—it marked the beginning of a representative governmen
 t\; the arrival of captive African laborers\; and the initiation of a succ
 essful plan to encourage permanent family development through the importat
 ion of English women. It was on June 29\, 1619\, that Sir George Yeardley\
 , governor general of the colony\, convened a legislative assembly consist
 ing of persons sent as representatives by its free male residents. It was 
 the first such legislative assembly in the British colonial New World. Two
  months later\, the first shipment of Africans arrived at Point Comfort on
  the southern coast of Virginia\, a foreshadowing of the hundreds of thous
 ands of African laborers who would eventually arrive and help to transform
  Virginia\, and several other colonies\, into race-based-slave economies. 
 That same year\, the Virginia Company of London began a concerted effort t
 o recruit “respectable [English] women” to the colony so that\, in the
  words of one Company officer\, they could “‘make wifes to the inhabit
 ants and by that meanes to make the men there more settled and less moveab
 le.” The combination of these efforts\, all meant to enhance the lives o
 f the colonial male elite\, marked the beginning of a true settler colony 
 for Britain in North America. This beginning came with grim implications f
 or the indigenous populations the British encountered. These experiments i
 n governance\, settler colonialism\, and a racialized economy also proved 
 to be the characteristic underpinnings of our independent nation two hundr
 ed and fifty years later. 1619 was indeed the red-letter year of British A
 merica’s 17th century!\n\nThe 2019–20 core program\, which marks the 4
 00th anniversary of this notable year\, encompasses three conferences\, e
 ach of which will address one of the three seminal events of 1619 within t
 he geopolitical\, economic\, and social/cultural contexts of 17th and 18th
  century North America. Across these conferences\, we will also consider 1
 619’s impact on the nation’s eventual character. The British\, of cour
 se\, were not the first Europeans to explore\, establish permanent settlem
 ents\, import African slaves\, or create governing structures in North Ame
 rica. The French and the Spanish made several forays into the southern\, g
 ulf\, and western regions before the British. Therefore\, the program will
  also encompass French and Spanish forays into the southern\, gulf\, and w
 estern regions.\n\nThe third conference will focus on the arrival\, coerci
 on\, commodification\, and resistance of native\, English\, and African wo
 men. Scholars will consider colonial women’s labor\, and their evolving 
 status within families and communities. Discussions will engage the proble
 ms and possibilities of a colonial archive that has traditionally been con
 structed by\, and centered on\, a white\, elite patriarchy to the exclusio
 n and/or marginality of the voices and divergent experiences of women\, Af
 ricans\, native peoples\, and non-elite whites.\n\nSpeakers\nDaina Ramey B
 erry\, University of Texas at Austin\nKathleen M. Brown\, University of Pe
 nnsylvania\nErica Armstrong Dunbar\, Rutgers University-New Brunswick\nSha
 rla M. Fett\, Occidental College\nJessica Millward\, University of Califor
 nia\, Irvine\nSusanah Shaw Romney\, New York University\nSusan Sleeper-Smi
 th\, Michigan State University\nLisa Sousa\, Occidental College\nBrenda E.
  Stevenson\, University of California\, Los Angeles\nLorena S. Walsh\, Col
 onial Williamsburg Foundation\n\n\n\n\nProgram\n\nProgram schedule coming 
 soon [3-11-2020]\n\n\n\nThere is no charge for this event. Advance booking
  is requested.
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