Aspects of the Triangular Slave Trade in Canada

Video-conference with Afua Cooper, Associate Professor; James Robinson Johnston Chair in Black Canadian Studies, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Dalhousie University.

Afua Cooper's research interests are African Canadian studies, with specific regard to the period of enslavement and emancipation in 18th and 19th century Canada and the Black Atlantic; African-Nova Scotian history; political consciousness; community building and culture; slavery’s aftermath; Black youth studies. Dr. Cooper founded the Black Canadian Studies Association (BCSA), which she currently chairs.

This seminar is part of the Slavery Old and New: Labour Exploitation Through the Ages and Around the Globe series, organized by the Institute of Comparative Law and the Hans & Tamar Oppenheimer Chair in Public International Law, with the participation of the Harriet Tubman Institute at York University.