[This language really shows the continuities between 18c slave management and contemporary discourses of racialized crime.]

One fascinating thing that emerged was that prizes or medals seem to have been awarded to enslaved people who informed on other slaves' rebellions, who later turned up in later rebellions themselves. There seems to be some kind of dynamic here that is obviously out of view of the settlers but affecting the organization and success of rebellions. #ASECS23

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The other standout for me was Clifton Sorrell (a grad student at UT Austin!) who offered a microhistory of Blackwall's Revolt in St Mary's Parish, 1765.

Sorrell's piece, which featured the problem of identifying actors when documents use similar or fragmentary names, nicely encapsulated the challenge of "ringleader" discourse, which of course assists settlers pursuing a distributed leadership, by suggesting they've identified an isolated troublemaker.

Before #ASECS23 goes out of my head, I just wanted to record a few thoughts I gathered at panels, to retain them myself and credit the panelists. This is part of what @carrideen has usefully called the "metacognitive" dimension of conferencing.

@jsadow solidarity! It was one of the things I appreciated about #ASECS23

Catching some Kauffman before leaving #asecs23 FMI on the image including a description https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/64630/

It was definitely tenuous for me to come on my slashed funding and I am in a better situation than many people @ASECS #ASECS2023 #ASECS23

From: @zionak
https://c18.masto.host/@zionak/110010807226390715

One question I found myself asking over and over at #ASECS23 is what happens when we look at national identity—in representations of women’s anger; in conceptions of pregnancy and women’s communal knowledge; in disability as a site of exclusion; and in The Woman of Colour’s ending

Another #c18 conference, another opportunity missed to play 10 candles. I'm going to do some touristy things because my only direct flight is rather late. Reposting #asecs23 tweets later.

Let me tell you nothing compared 2 #ASECS23 karaoke

At the airport for my flight back home. I’m sad not to be staying the last day this year, but I thoroughly enjoyed the work I got to witness and be party to. Thank you @ASECS for a great conference. #ASECS2023 #asecs23

Off to a panel on women’s anger and rage in c18 Literature this morning #ASECS23

Random thoughts at #asecs23: I want to get back to more hands on activities with archives, printing presses, foods, etc. This could clarify some digital assignments I am already doing. How to we raise funds to make this conference more accessible? How do we make this more accessible in general? How to I get more Howard Students at either ASECS or just ECASECS? How can I have more puppetry in my life?

It is KILLING me to try to choose between the 3 panels I’m interested in at 4:30 today. One’s DH, one’s BH, and one’s fiction — one for each of my interests. @ASECS #ASECS23

My first time to #ASECS23 and my main take away is that you all are brilliant. My second take away is that, like Cranford, ASECS is in possession of Amazons, which is badass.

Presented on epistolary fanfic for #SEASECS23 and asexual epistolarity for #ASECS23 - that post-defense “I don’t want to think about, let alone TALK about my diss” vibe is real (but also please talk to me about my diss, I’m feeling better about it now that there’s some distance)

Thrilled to see African Impressions on the UVaP table at #ASECS2023 (#ASECS23) and in the company those making Virginia such an exciting press for eighteenth-century studies (including our intrepid admin @carrideen ).

So how was everyone's first day of #ASECS2023? I found out a lot that I will need to know next fall about recruiting English majors, learned some things about Haywood as a translator, and ate at this restaurant that supposedly was where Al Capone was arrested with @shandyist & friends.

@ASECS #ASECS23 (since no one can decide on the hashtag).

Heading to the last panel of #ASECS23 day 1 and it’s on shifting feelings and forms in the eighteenth-century novel

Should not have left my umbrella when I left for lunch #ASECS23

This #ASECS23 panel on reproductive rights is absolutely brilliant. Such important scholarship meeting the moment.