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🇺🇸 United States
Affiliation
Africana Studies and English Department, Barnard College at Columbia University, United States
Field of study
Languages, Linguistics and Literature
Residencies at STIAS
2019 2nd Semester
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STIAS Lecture Series 2019: Yvette Christiansë - “Untold wealth for the benefit of the World”: Liberated Africans and the Cost of Freedom

Yvette Christiansë,holder of the Ann Whitney Olin Chair, Professor of Africana Studies and Englishat Barnard College, Columbia Universityand STIAS fellowwill present a talk with the title: Untold wealth for the benefit of the World: Liberated Africans and the Cost of Freedom Abstract Britain’s 1807 ban on abducting Africans into slavery might be called the de jure event whose consequences set in motion the longue durée of de facto realities.