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Tuesday 01 March 2016, 17:45-19:15
'Antislavery and Empire: Paradoxes of Liberation in the Western Indian Ocean'
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- 👤 Speaker: Associate Professor Matthew S. Hopper, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, Smuts Visiting Research Fellow in Commonwealth Studies, Wolfson College and Centre of African Studies
- 📅 Date & Time: Tuesday 01 March 2016, 17:45 - 19:15
- 📍 Venue: Gatsby Room, Wolfson College
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Graham Allen
Abstract
This paper examines British antislavery policy in the Indian Ocean in the second half of the nineteenth century, focusing on the lives of enslaved Africans who were liberated by the Royal Navy. The paper highlights contradictions of the anti-slave trade campaign in the Western Indian Ocean resulting from demands for political stability and the region’s economic dependence on slave labour.
Series This talk is part of the Wolfson College Humanities Society talks series.
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