2024 Annual Lecture in the History of Slavery - Professor Benedetta Rossi The global movement to abolish first the slave trade and then slavery in Africa has been studied as driven by Europe, primarily Britain. The historiography of abolitionism focuses on European, American, and to a lesser extent, Caribbean actors. Africans feature in it as either victims or perpetrators. This lecture will take a different perspective, and approach ‘the problem of African slavery’ as an African problem. It will contextualise different African problematisations of slavery in the framework of changing global abolitionist strategies throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It will consider what slavery meant to different groups engaged in its suppression. It will examine how the rationales that supported the slave trade and slavery were progressively refuted, where, when, why, by whom, and with what consequences in African societies. Professor Benedetta Rossi Benedetta Rossi is Professor of History at University College London (UCL). She is the author of From Slavery to Aid (CUP, 2015) and the editor of Reconfiguring Slavery: West African Trajectories (LUP, 2009, 2nd ed. 2016) and Les Mondes de l’Esclavage: Une Histoire Comparée (Seuil, 2021, with Paulin Ismard and Cécile Vidal). She recently edited two special issues on African legal abolitions in the Law & History Review (2024, vol. 42, issue 1) and on African approaches to ending slavery in Esclavages & Post-esclavages (2024, forthcoming) and published ‘An Abolitionist Vicious Circle: Slaving, Antislavery, and Violence on the Shores of Lake Tanganyika at the Onset of Colonial Occupation’ in Slavery & Abolition (2024, FirstView). She is the Principal Investigator of the ERC Advanced Grant African Abolitionism: The Rise and Transformations of Anti-Slavery in Africa (AFRAB). Oct 17 2024 17.00 - 18.00 2024 Annual Lecture in the History of Slavery - Professor Benedetta Rossi The next Annual Lecture in the History of Slavery will be given by Professor Benedetta Rossi on 'The problem of African slavery in the age of abolition'. Screening Room, 50 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9LH 50 George Square Tickets (free)
2024 Annual Lecture in the History of Slavery - Professor Benedetta Rossi The global movement to abolish first the slave trade and then slavery in Africa has been studied as driven by Europe, primarily Britain. The historiography of abolitionism focuses on European, American, and to a lesser extent, Caribbean actors. Africans feature in it as either victims or perpetrators. This lecture will take a different perspective, and approach ‘the problem of African slavery’ as an African problem. It will contextualise different African problematisations of slavery in the framework of changing global abolitionist strategies throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It will consider what slavery meant to different groups engaged in its suppression. It will examine how the rationales that supported the slave trade and slavery were progressively refuted, where, when, why, by whom, and with what consequences in African societies. Professor Benedetta Rossi Benedetta Rossi is Professor of History at University College London (UCL). She is the author of From Slavery to Aid (CUP, 2015) and the editor of Reconfiguring Slavery: West African Trajectories (LUP, 2009, 2nd ed. 2016) and Les Mondes de l’Esclavage: Une Histoire Comparée (Seuil, 2021, with Paulin Ismard and Cécile Vidal). She recently edited two special issues on African legal abolitions in the Law & History Review (2024, vol. 42, issue 1) and on African approaches to ending slavery in Esclavages & Post-esclavages (2024, forthcoming) and published ‘An Abolitionist Vicious Circle: Slaving, Antislavery, and Violence on the Shores of Lake Tanganyika at the Onset of Colonial Occupation’ in Slavery & Abolition (2024, FirstView). She is the Principal Investigator of the ERC Advanced Grant African Abolitionism: The Rise and Transformations of Anti-Slavery in Africa (AFRAB). Oct 17 2024 17.00 - 18.00 2024 Annual Lecture in the History of Slavery - Professor Benedetta Rossi The next Annual Lecture in the History of Slavery will be given by Professor Benedetta Rossi on 'The problem of African slavery in the age of abolition'. Screening Room, 50 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9LH 50 George Square Tickets (free)
Oct 17 2024 17.00 - 18.00 2024 Annual Lecture in the History of Slavery - Professor Benedetta Rossi The next Annual Lecture in the History of Slavery will be given by Professor Benedetta Rossi on 'The problem of African slavery in the age of abolition'.
