Lord Dalhousie Report on Slavery

Soyez des nôtres pour la première conférence du cycle "L'esclavage et le droit" de 2020-2021 avec la professeure Afua Cooper (Dalhousie) dans une plénière des cours LAWG 220 Property / Les biens.

Ce cycle de conférences est soutenu par le Laboratoire de recherche sur le droit du travail et le développement de l'Université McGill.

La conférencière

[En anglais seulement] A faculty member of the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology of Dalhousie University, Professor Afua Cooper is the Chair of the Scholarly Panel on Lord Dalhousie's Relationship to Race and Slavery and co-author of the Report. She is also the former James Robinson Johnston Chair in Black Canadian Studies.

Her 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, which she currently chairs. She recently wrote and performed: "15 Ships to Sierra Leone" Black Halifax: Stories from Here.