BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260711T023604EDT-5199TpAm61@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20260711T063604Z DESCRIPTION:Conférence avec Elizabeth Elbourne sur l'esclavage et l'exploit ation à travers les âges\nConférence avec la professeure Elizabeth Elbourn e du département d'histoire et d'études classiques de 91\, organisée p ar la Chaire Hans & Tamar Oppenheimer en droit public international\, l'in stitut de droit comparé et le Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on Afr ica and its Diasporas.\nUn léger déjeuner sera servi: prière de confirmer sa présence en écrivant à oppenheimer [at] mcgill [dot] ca.\nRésumé (en an glais seulement)\nAfter Britain abolished first the slave trade in 1807 an d then slavery itself in the British empire in 1834\, British abolitionist s turned their attention to abolishing the slave trade elsewhere in the wo rld in a manner that raises issues of relevance to contemporary debates ab out international law and humanitarian intervention. Abolition became a ju stification for colonialism even as the British tested the limits of inter national law in intercepting slave trading vessels.\nThis paper looks more particularly at the Niger Expedition of 1841-1842\, which aimed to persua de African chiefs to sign treaties abjuring slavery and the slave trade in exchange for preferential commercial exchange with Great Britain. Three e xploratory steamships were dispatched down the river Niger\, led by “godly ” ship captains with a public mandate for negotiation and a private mandat e for the acquisition of territory\, accompanied by scientists\, missionar ies and agents charged with developing a model farm to teach cotton produc tion.\nAlthough the expedition was a failure with a catastrophic death rat e from disease\, it raised important questions around treaty-making\, cont ract (could non-Christian African chiefs be adequate contracting agents an d if not could abolition exist without colonialism?)\, ethical commerce (h ow could commerce be made morally viable\, especially if carried out by im moral agents?)\, humanitarian intervention and the legal limits of soverei gnty.\nInspired in part by an eschatological faith that they were agents o f God’s will in creating moral labour practices\, men and women who had be en deeply involved in the abolition of the slave trade pushed a colonial a genda that was more aggressive than that of the Colonial Office. The exped ition can also fruitfully be seen as a failed development project.\nElizab eth Elbourne is Associate Professor and Chair\, in the Department of Histo ry and Classical Studies\, 91. Her publications include the collection Sex\, Power and Slavery (Ohio University Press\, 2014\; co-edi ted with Gwyn Campbell)\, and Blood Ground: Colonialism\, Missions and the Contest for Christianity in Britain and the Eastern Cape\, 1799-1853 (McG ill-Queens\, 2004). She has just finished a stint as joint editor (with Br ian Cowan) of the Journal of British Studies.\n DTSTART:20150119T180000Z DTEND:20150119T193000Z LOCATION:salle 107\, Pavillon Ferrier\, CA\, QC\, Montréal\, H3A 0G2\, 840\ , avenue du Docteur-Penfield SUMMARY:After abolition: British humanitarian colonialism\, the Niger Exped ition and the drive to remake African labour URL:/channels/fr/event/after-abolition-british-humanit arian-colonialism-niger-expedition-and-drive-remake-african-labour-241065 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR