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… historic entanglements and associations with slavery, the slave trade, and abolition. This panel discussion will take place … researchers an opportunity to reflect on this history and its meanings today in their lives at Yale. The panel is …

… and purpose in an imagined relationship with a powerful British monarch. Authority within the maroon community had … fought against the insurgents between 1810 and 1816. The abolition of Tribute and Personal Services, and the autonomy … British Atlantic World” Scholars of both slave resistance and royalism in the eighteenth century have …

… prejudice, and of the power which must be exerted by the British to overcome it, he felt deeply grateful to the … black was [in] what was regarded as his proper position, a slave, no one shrunk from him. While he himself was a slave, … although a semi-barbarous state, had declared the entire abolition of slavery in her territories. The consequence was …

… of Harvard to Speak at Yale October 6, 2008. Account of Slave Trade Wins Frederick Douglass Book Prize October 1, 2008. …

… soothes their dying pillow. Wellington at Waterloo was a slave. He was bound to obey, or would, like admiral Bying, … we intend to make it the subject of a separate essay. Free trade doctrines, not slavery, have made the South … in it; or if you do, you will find plenty of it at home in its most hideous form. The earliest civilization of which …

… soothes their dying pillow. Wellington at Waterloo was a slave. He was bound to obey, or would, like admiral Bying, … we intend to make it the subject of a separate essay. Free trade doctrines, not slavery, have made the South … in it; or if you do, you will find plenty of it at home in its most hideous form. The earliest civilization of which …

… European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the UK and EU … concluded an agreement. In order for the 1246-page UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement to take effect at midnight, … made contingency plans to recall the Parliament from its Christmas recess so the House of Commons and House of …

… November. If there’s no agreement, the UK will trade with the member states of the EU as it does with other … Brussels. This is in any case what I have proposed to the British team, that we hold intensive negotiations in the … that are more like Australia’s based on simple principles of global free trade.” (In 2008, the EU and …

… awarded for the best book written in English on slavery or abolition. Gordon-Reed won for her book, The Hemingses of … society before and after the American Revolution. Its meticulous account of the mid-eighteenth century … on Jefferson’s subsequent conjoining with a young female slave who was already his kin by marriage. By exploring those …

… Recent works include  The Anti-Slavery Project: From the Slave Trade to Human Trafficking  (2011),  Mobility Makes States: … Rhetoric and Political Practice  (2017). “Slavery and Its Legacies” is available on  iTunes  and  SoundCloud …

… struggle to face its past relationships to slavery and the slave trade a little like Garcia Marquez’s silversmith? Not in some … its obsessions can stifle democratizing and universalizing principles, it is precisely because of this dilemma that we …