Location
Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, UCL
Professor Benedetta Rossi: Inaugural Lecture | Africa in the Global History of Slavery and Abolition, 1800-2023
Join UCL History to celebrate Benedetta Rossi’s professorship with a lecture in the Gustave Tuck followed by a reception in the South Cloisters. There will be a welcome from Dr Antonio Sennis (UCL) and an introduction by Professor Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias, FBA.
What happens to our understanding of the global history of slavery and abolition if we place African processes, institutions, and actors at the centre of the analysis? When, where, and how did slavery start to be radically challenged in Africa? This lecture will consider these dynamics in different African regions, then zoom in on the Central Sahel and examine the transformations of ideas and practices of enslavement from the times of the Sokoto Caliphate, through colonial occupation, to the struggles of West African anti-slavery activists at the forefront of international abolitionism today.
For more information and to register, please visit: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/history/events/2024/mar/professor-benedetta-rossi-inaugural-lecture
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