REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Rebellion, Resistance, and Refuge: Slavery and Border-Crossing during the American Revolution

Slavery North is pleased to share details about our upcoming academic conference, Rebellion, Resistance, and Refuge: Slavery and Border-Crossing during the American Revolution, taking place in-person at UMass Amherst from Thursday, July 9 to Sunday, July12, 2026.

On the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, join us for a conference that presents papers that rethink the cultures, events, and experiences of the American Revolutionary War across the liminal borders (regional and proto-national) of British North America. Our organizing premise insists that participants recuperate and centre the aspirations, resistance, perspectives, and experiences of enslaved people and communities.