Presentations

1: From Godey’s to Liberia and Back: Sarah Josepha Hale and Proslavery Rhetoric

Katharine A. Burnett, Fisk U

2: ‘A Half-Abolitionist Herself’: Rebecca Harding Davis and the Limits of Emancipation

Sarah E. Gardner, Mercer U

3: Rarely Endowed yet Rarely Good: The Proslavery Morality of James Henry Hammond and William Gilmore Simms

Todd Hagstette, U of South Carolina, Aiken

Related Material: For related material, write to ToddH@usca.edu after 15 Sept.

Presider

Sarah E. Gardner, Mercer U