This essay reconsiders Freedom’s Debtors through the lens of the three Ferguson Prize panelists’ comments. It frames the arguments of the book in relationship to a growing body of scholarship on the history of Sierra Leone, and in relationship to older problems in the history of British imperial political economy. The essay reasserts two of the core contentions in Freedom’s Debtors: the close, and sometimes unacknowledged, proximity between British slavery and British antislavery, and the centrality of antislavery to British imperial expansion in the nineteenth century.Ce texte jette un nouveau regard sur Freedom’s Debtors dans l’optique des commentaires des trois panélistes du Prix Ferguson. Il situe les arguments du livre par rapport à un...
This collection of eight essays by research students and academics from the UK, France, Germany and ...
Sierra Leone was purportedly conceived of the Enlightenment’s growing antislavery movement in the 18...
This article reconstructs and interprets the early history of the Liberated African villages of Sier...
This essay discusses the important contributions of Padraic Scanlan’s book Freedom’s Debtors: Britis...
A history of the abolition of the British slave trade in Sierra Leone and how the British used its s...
Padraic Scanlan’s Freedom’s Debtors makes an important intervention in the debate on the abolition o...
In the spring of 1794, eight black men composed a letter in which they claimed to be living in a tow...
The history of slavery in Britain and the British empire has placed the legislative milestones of an...
Review essay of the following books: Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in Nort...
A leading scholar of humanitarian intervention, Brown (2002) refers to British internal politics to ...
The aim of this paper is to point out the significance of the distinction between liberty and freedo...
This essay explores the experiences of enslaved people who sought to escape their bondage in England...
Jeffery R. Kerr-Ritchie’s Freedom’s Seekers offers a bold and innovative intervention into the stud...
The British project of repatriating freed slaves in the ‘Province of Freedom’, now known as Sierra L...
While past British abolitionist endeavours in Sierra Leone were praised at Westminster during the de...
This collection of eight essays by research students and academics from the UK, France, Germany and ...
Sierra Leone was purportedly conceived of the Enlightenment’s growing antislavery movement in the 18...
This article reconstructs and interprets the early history of the Liberated African villages of Sier...
This essay discusses the important contributions of Padraic Scanlan’s book Freedom’s Debtors: Britis...
A history of the abolition of the British slave trade in Sierra Leone and how the British used its s...
Padraic Scanlan’s Freedom’s Debtors makes an important intervention in the debate on the abolition o...
In the spring of 1794, eight black men composed a letter in which they claimed to be living in a tow...
The history of slavery in Britain and the British empire has placed the legislative milestones of an...
Review essay of the following books: Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in Nort...
A leading scholar of humanitarian intervention, Brown (2002) refers to British internal politics to ...
The aim of this paper is to point out the significance of the distinction between liberty and freedo...
This essay explores the experiences of enslaved people who sought to escape their bondage in England...
Jeffery R. Kerr-Ritchie’s Freedom’s Seekers offers a bold and innovative intervention into the stud...
The British project of repatriating freed slaves in the ‘Province of Freedom’, now known as Sierra L...
While past British abolitionist endeavours in Sierra Leone were praised at Westminster during the de...
This collection of eight essays by research students and academics from the UK, France, Germany and ...
Sierra Leone was purportedly conceived of the Enlightenment’s growing antislavery movement in the 18...
This article reconstructs and interprets the early history of the Liberated African villages of Sier...