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SUMMARY:When Britons were slaves: Barbary slavery and its consequences - J
 ustin Meggitt\, University Senior Lecturer in the Study of Religion\, Inst
 itute of Continuing Education\, Fellow of Wolfson
DTSTART:20150128T130000Z
DTEND:20150128T140000Z
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CONTACT:DJ Goode
DESCRIPTION:The enslavement of Europeans and North Americans in North Afri
 ca from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century is a contentious area of s
 tudy. Its nature and extent are the subject of considerable debate. Should
  the captives even be called slaves? How many fell victim to the trade? Wh
 y is it so often examined independently of the wider phenomenon of Mediter
 ranean-based slavery\, which led to the enslavement of comparable numbers 
 of North Africans in Europe? What relationship\, if any\, did Barbary slav
 ery have to the much better known Atlantic slave trade in Africans? The se
 minar will use an unusual case study of Quaker slaves from England and her
  colonies in the seventeenth century to shine a light on these and other q
 uestions\, revealing a surprising link between the origins of the abolitio
 n of the Atlantic slave trade and the enslavement of members of this sect 
 on the Barbary coast.
LOCATION:Combination Room\, Wolfson College
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