Workpackage leader :

Myriam Cottias

CNRS

Centre International de Recherches sur les Esclavages

The objectives of this workpackage are :

- to examine the extent to which the rhetoric of, and debates about slavery and abolition shape and reshape political and national discourses and frontiers throughout Europe, creating popular understandings (or misunderstandings) of slavery and abolition, as manifested in formal constitutional arrangements in both Europe and its former colonial territories, especially in West Africa ;

- to analyse the development of representations and racism between Europe, Africa and Americas, particularly through abolitionist discourses ;

- to observe how frontiers, feelings of belonging, citizenship and identity have been constructed historically in continental Europe and its colonies and how law has supported these constructions in both contexts.

Researchers involved in this workpackage :

Myriam COTTIAS

Mariana CANDIDO

Elsa GENESTE

Erik GOEBEL

Douglas HAMILTON

Kate HODGSON

Paul LOVEJOY

Joël QUIRK

Ibrahima SECK

Ibrahima THIOUB