Professor David Garland, School of Law, New York University. Chaired by Professor Ian Loader

The nation-building efforts of the early independence regimes silenced references to internal slavery as a potentially divisive factor that would undermine national unification.

Policies focused on development responded to the colonial state's need for cheap labour when compulsory recruitment and conscription were finally outlawed.

This lecture examines the initial consequences of abolitionism and the early stages of the slaves’ emancipation struggles. It covers a period for which it is possible to distinguish three...

Republicanism Cosmopolitanism and Global Migration Regimes

Louis Halewood: A Question of Prestige? Command in the Mediterranean, 1914-1918 Jack Doyle: The Aviator Myth: Reconsidering First World War Fighter Pilots as Combatants

This lecture asks to what extent the abolition of the legal status of slavery actually contributed to the emancipation of male and female slaves in different African societies and when di...