Requires Readings (on Talis)

Suzanne Miers, Slavery to freedom in sub‐Saharan Africa: Expectations and reality Slavery & Abolition

Christine Whyte. "Freedom But Nothing Else": The Legacies of Slavery and Abolition in Post-Slavery Sierra Leone, 1928-1956 The International Journal of African Historical Studies

Laura Fair. Dressing up: Clothing, Class and Gender in Post-Abolition Zanzibar The Journal of African History

Further Readings (on Talis)

Seminar Questions

1. Which sources can historians use to examine the history of slavery? And how effectively can we recover the experiences of enslaved people?

2. Why did slavery continue after abolition?

3. What explains the gendered experiences of emancipation?

4. Why were women the majority of slaves in the Sub-Saharan African past?

5. How were slavery practices shaped by broader relations of gender and power?