{"id":846,"date":"2026-05-05T18:19:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T18:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acgcc.english.ucsb.edu\/?p=846"},"modified":"2026-05-05T18:19:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T18:19:35","slug":"monday-may-11-i-put-her-in-the-well-felony-slavery-personhood-in-early-america-in-person-discussion-with-arranne-rispoli-phd-candidate-in-history-at-ucla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acgcc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/monday-may-11-i-put-her-in-the-well-felony-slavery-personhood-in-early-america-in-person-discussion-with-arranne-rispoli-phd-candidate-in-history-at-ucla\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday, May 11: &#8220;&#8216;I Put Her In The Well&#8217;: Felony, Slavery &#038; Personhood in Early America&#8221; In-Person Discussion with Arrann\u00e8 Rispoli, PhD candidate in History at UCLA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Please join ACGCC; The Slavery, Captivity, And The Meaning Of Freedom Research Focus Group; and The Legal Humanities Research Focus Group next Monday, May 11th at 4PM in HSSB 6028 (the Crowell Reading Room) for a discussion with Arrann\u00e8 Rispoli, PhD candidate in History at UCLA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We will be discussing a chapter from Rispoli&#8217;s dissertation-in-progress, entitled &#8220;&#8216;Feloniously, Voluntarily, and of her Malice forethought&#8217;: Legal Procedure, Gender, and the Penalties of Personhood,&#8221; which is part of Rispoli&#8217;s broader consideration of the &#8220;procedural mechanisms employed in colonial New England capital trials&#8221; in an effort to &#8220;gain insight into the factors that generated racial disparities in legal outcomes.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reach out to us over email, at <strong>acgcc@english.ucsb.edu<\/strong>, or via social media to receive a copy of the chapter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We hope to see you there!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/acgcc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Arranne-Rispoli-Flyer-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-847\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acgcc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Arranne-Rispoli-Flyer-1.png 480w, https:\/\/acgcc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Arranne-Rispoli-Flyer-1-240x300.png 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please join ACGCC; The Slavery, Captivity, And The Meaning Of Freedom Research Focus Group; and The Legal Humanities Research Focus Group next Monday, May 11th at 4PM in HSSB 6028 (the Crowell Reading Room) for a discussion with Arrann\u00e8 Rispoli, PhD candidate in History at UCLA. We will be discussing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acgcc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acgcc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acgcc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acgcc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acgcc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/acgcc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":848,"href":"https:\/\/acgcc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions\/848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acgcc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acgcc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acgcc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}