Cultural Wars: The Abolition of Slave Trade Facing its History (3ECTS)

This course shall critically examine the changing nature of humanitarian activism against slave trade from its abolition in the early 19th century and its many legacies in contemporary, politics, culture and memory.
The first part of the course shall cover the rise of anti-slavery movements in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, tracing the roots, routes, and reverberations of these events across disparate parts
of the Atlantic World. The second part shall aim at expanding our understanding of the relationships between European, African, and American histories, as they speak to our understanding on current perceived “cultural wars”.

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Taught by:

  • Esperanza Cerdá Redondo

Dates of teaching:

  • Vitual

            2 de junio     15:00-19:00 

          23 de junio     15:00-19:00 

  • On site

          9 June     15:00-19:00 

        16 June     15:00-19:00

Language:

  • English

Modality:

  • Mixed