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DESCRIPTION:A seminar with Elizabeth Elbourne - Slavery Old and New: Labour
  Exploitation Through the Ages and Around the Globe seminar series\nJoin u
 s for a video-conference with Elizabeth Elborne\, hosted by the Hans & Tam
 ar Oppenheimer Chair in Public International Law\, the Institute for Compa
 rative Law\, and the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on Africa and i
 ts Diasporas.\nA light lunch will be served: kindly RSVP to oppenheimer [a
 t] mcgill.ca.\nAbstract\nAfter Britain abolished first the slave trade in 
 1807 and then slavery itself in the British empire in 1834\, British aboli
 tionists turned their attention to abolishing the slave trade elsewhere in
  the world in a manner that raises issues of relevance to contemporary deb
 ates about international law and humanitarian intervention. Abolition beca
 me a justification for colonialism even as the British tested the limits o
 f international law in intercepting slave trading vessels.\nThis paper loo
 ks more particularly at the Niger Expedition of 1841-1842\, which aimed to
  persuade African chiefs to sign treaties abjuring slavery and the slave t
 rade in exchange for preferential commercial exchange with Great Britain. 
 Three exploratory 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\, mi
 ssionaries and agents charged with developing a model farm to teach cotton
  production.\nAlthough the expedition was a failure with a catastrophic de
 ath rate from disease\, it raised important questions around treaty-making
 \, contract (could non-Christian African chiefs be adequate contracting ag
 ents and if not could abolition exist without colonialism?)\, ethical comm
 erce (how could commerce be made morally viable\, especially if carried ou
 t by immoral agents?)\, humanitarian intervention and the legal limits of 
 sovereignty.\nInspired in part by an eschatological faith that they were a
 gents of God’s will in creating moral labour practices\, men and women who
  had been deeply involved in the abolition of the slave trade pushed a col
 onial agenda that was more aggressive than that of the Colonial Office. Th
 e expedition can also fruitfully be seen as a failed development project.
 \nElizabeth Elbourne is Associate Professor and Chair\, in the Department 
 of History and Classical Studies\, 91������. Her publications inc
 lude the collection Sex\, Power and Slavery (Ohio University Press\, 2014\
 ; co-edited with Gwyn Campbell)\, and Blood Ground: Colonialism\, Missions
  and the Contest for Christianity in Britain and the Eastern Cape\, 1799-1
 853 (91������-Queens\, 2004). She has just finished a stint as joint editor 
 (with Brian Cowan) of the Journal of British Studies.\n
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LOCATION:room 107\, Ferrier Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0G2\, 840 a
 venue du Docteur-Penfield
SUMMARY:After abolition: British humanitarian colonialism\, the Niger Exped
 ition and the drive to remake African labour 
URL:/law/channels/event/after-abolition-british-humani
 tarian-colonialism-niger-expedition-and-drive-remake-african-labour-241065
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