Slavery and Its Legacies Symposium

Topics include how Reconstruction in the U.S. South affected representation and wealth; how American slavery undermined the New Deal; the long-term influence of slavery and its abolition on development, political attitudes and social capital in Brazil and Columbia; and the impact of slavery on literacy and health in Africa more than a century later.
Panel One
Jason Poulos (Duke): Amnesty Policy and Elite Persistence in the Postbellum South: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design
Mario Chacón (NYU & Universidad de los Andes), Jeffrey Jensen (NYU Abu Dhabi), and Sidak Ynitso (NYU): Representation and Imposed Democratization: Evidence from Black Enfranchisement during Reconstruction
Discussant: David Bateman (Cornell)
Panel Two
Soumyajit Mazumder (Ph.D. Harvard 2020): Old South, New Deal: How the Legacy of Slavery Undermined the New Deal
Discussant: Pavithra Suryanarayan (Johns Hopkins University)
Vanessa Bouaroudj and Adeel Malik (University of Oxford): Slavery and Human Capital in Africa: An Empirical Extension of Nunn (2008)
Discussant: Dozie Okoye (Dalhousie University)
Panel Three
François Seyler (Université Laval): Slavery, political attitudes and social capital: evidence from Brazil
Ali Ahmed (NYU), Marcus Johnson (CUNY, Baruch College), and Mateo Vásquez-Cortés (ITAM): Slavery, Elections, and Political Affiliations in Colombia
Discussant: Leticia Arroyo Abad (CUNY, Queens College)