"Empire, Sovereignty, and Labor in the Age of Global Abolition" by the McNeil Center for Early American Studies (review).

The article discusses the highlights of the virtual conference Empire, Sovereignty, and Labor in the Age of Global Abolition held by the McNeil Center for Early American Studies in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in February 2021. The event focused on researchers who are committed to writing revisionist social, economic and political histories of the 19th-century Atlantic and Pacific Worlds. Topics discussed include the connections between free labor ideologies and state-building in the Americas.