Shantel George, University of Glasgow

Jake Richards, London School of Economics and Political Science

Maeve Ryan, King’s College London

 

Chair: Christine Whyte, University of Glasgow


From 1807 until the end of the 19th century, Africans ‘liberated’ from illegal slaving vessels were re-settled in West Africa, the Cape Colony, Kenya, across the Caribbean and in South America. These tens of thousands of men, women and children endured enslavement, some survived the experience of liberation, but many did not. This roundtable brings together scholars working across Africa and the Atlantic tracing the lives and legacies of Liberated Africans. How do these new studies of abolition, liberation and survival change our understanding of slavery and its legacies? What is the role of scholars of slavery and abolition in public history? Why has ‘abolition’ be co-opted so often as a top-down ‘good’ gifted by the British Empire? How do social and political histories of Liberated Africans correct these notions?

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/liberated-africans-and-the-study-of-slavery-new-directions-tickets-165049937807

First published: 31 March 2021

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