Each year a guest lecturer presents research that furthers our understanding of the history of slavery and its impacts. A series of lectures on ‘World Slavery from Antiquity to the Present’ was established in the Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies in 2012 and has continued under within the ECGH since 2019. Some of the lectures have been recorded and can be viewed by clicking on the links below:The 2025 Annual Lecture in the History of SlaveryProfessor Christopher L. Brown (Columbia): 'The Atlantic Slave Trade and the American Revolution'. Click here for event details.Past Lectures2012 – Professor David Richardson (Hull): ‘Why Was the British Slave Trade So Big?’2013 – Professor Walter Scheidel (Stanford): ‘Slavery and Forced Labor in Early China and the Roman World’2013 – Professor Philip Morgan (Johns Hopkins): ‘Caribbean Slavery’2014 – Professor Annette Gordon-Reed (Harvard): ‘The Hemingses of Monticello’2015 – Professor John Cairns (Edinburgh): ‘Manumitting Slaves: Eighteenth-Century Scotland and Ancient Rome’2015 – Professor Sir Hilary Beckles (University of the West Indies): ‘Britain’s Black Debt: Reparatory Justice for Slavery and Genocide in Caribbean Context’2016 – Professor Vincent Brown (Harvard): ‘The Coromantee War: Charting the Course of an Atlantic Slave Revolt’2019 – Professor Jennifer Morgan (New York University): ‘Reckoning With Slavery: Kinship and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic’2021 – Professor Ana Lucia Araujo (Howard): ‘Slavery in the Age of Memory: Britain, France and the United States’2022 – Professor Indrani Chatterjee (UT Austin): ‘Entangled Hierarchies: Of Varna-Jati, Casta and Slaves in Historic South Asia’2023 – Professor Brenda Stevenson (Oxford): ‘Slavery, Family and Resistance’2023 – Professor Daniel Smail (Harvard): ‘Slavery and the Pursuit of Freedom in Later Medieval Mediterranean Europe’2024 – Professor Benedetta Rossi (UCL): ‘The Problem of African Slavery in the Age of Abolition’ This article was published on 2024-08-01
