Slavery and its legacies

DASA’s interdisciplinary tradition supports comparative and country-specific research that contributes to the theorisation of slavery and freedom, and the documentation of different forms of slavery around the world. Recent projects have aimed to tackle present-day manifestations and legacies of slavery in Africa.

Researchers

Staff members research highlights

• Benedetta Rossi - LESLAN: Legacies of Slavery in Niger

LESLAN supports the activities of the Anti-Slavery Taskforce and Timidria, the main Nigerien anti-slavery NGO, in their efforts to improve the situation of people of slavery descent in the Republic of Niger. The specific objective of LESLAN is to change the way slavery and slave ownership are imagined, to end the stigma directed against the descendants of slaves and to engage in an unprecedented public dialogue on slavery. in Niger.

• • LESLAN project website

Doctoral researchers:

• Toni Smith: Sexual and Gender Based Violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo: A Historical Ethnography of Policy and Practice- 1980- 2016 

Major publications

• Benedetta Rossi,Modern slavery, Brexit, migration, and development: connecting the dots
• Benedetta Rossi, The everyday gender inequalities that underpin wartime atrocities
• Benedetta Rossi, Périodiser la fin de l’esclavage: Le droit colonial, la Société des Nations et la résistance des esclaves dans le Sahel nigérien, 1920-1930

Projects

• LESLAN: Legacies of Slavery in Niger

• Exchanges around emancipation: Birmingham and Dakar

Events

• SLAFNET workshop on Slavery, Post-Slavery and Gender Violence in Africa
• LESLAN Expo

Find out more

• Research in African Studies and Anthropology
• Doctoral researchers
• Africa Talks seminars