This week examines the presence and strategies of voices in the metropole, critiquing the discourse that enslavement and oppression was the ‘norm at the time’.

Seminar Questions

1) Why have metropolitan anti-slavery campaigns typically garnered more attention than actions taken by enslaved people themselves?

2) How was enslaved resistance represented and discussed in the metropole?

3) Who were the metropolitan actors challenging enslavement, and what were their motives?