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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.ca.\nRésumé (en anglais 
 seulement)\nAfter Britain abolished first the slave trade in 1807 and then
  slavery itself in the British empire in 1834\, British abolitionists turn
 ed their attention to abolishing the slave trade elsewhere in the world in
  a manner that raises issues of relevance to contemporary debates about in
 ternational law and humanitarian intervention. Abolition became a justific
 ation for colonialism even as the British tested the limits of internation
 al law in intercepting slave trading vessels.\nThis paper looks more parti
 cularly at the Niger Expedition of 1841-1842\, which aimed to persuade Afr
 ican chiefs to sign treaties abjuring slavery and the slave trade in excha
 nge for preferential commercial exchange with Great Britain. Three explora
 tory steamships were dispatched down the river Niger\, led by “godly” ship
  captains with a public mandate for negotiation and a private mandate for 
 the acquisition of territory\, accompanied by scientists\, missionaries an
 d agents charged with developing a model farm to teach cotton production.
 \nAlthough the expedition was a failure with a catastrophic death rate fro
 m disease\, it raised important questions around treaty-making\, contract 
 (could non-Christian African chiefs be adequate contracting agents and if 
 not could abolition exist without colonialism?)\, ethical commerce (how co
 uld commerce be made morally viable\, especially if carried out by immoral
  agents?)\, humanitarian intervention and the legal limits of sovereignty.
 \nInspired in part by an eschatological faith that they were agents of God
 ’s will in creating moral labour practices\, men and women who had been de
 eply involved in the abolition of the slave trade pushed a colonial agenda
  that was more aggressive than that of the Colonial Office. The expedition
  can also fruitfully be seen as a failed development project.\nElizabeth E
 lbourne is Associate Professor and Chair\, in the Department of History an
 d Classical Studies\, 91������. Her publications include the coll
 ection Sex\, Power and Slavery (Ohio University Press\, 2014\; co-edited w
 ith Gwyn Campbell)\, and Blood Ground: Colonialism\, Missions and the Cont
 est for Christianity in Britain and the Eastern Cape\, 1799-1853 (91������-Q
 ueens\, 2004). She has just finished a stint as joint editor (with Brian C
 owan) of the Journal of British Studies.\n
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LOCATION:salle 107\, Ferrier Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, 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:/law/fr/channels/event/after-abolition-british-hum
 anitarian-colonialism-niger-expedition-and-drive-remake-african-labour-241
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