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DESCRIPTION:The Role of British Political Agents and Missionaries in Perpet
 uating Slavery and Forced Labour in Nineteenth-Century Madagascar\n\nProf.
  Gwyn Campbell\n	IOWC\, McGill\n\nIn 1807\, under mounting pressure from th
 e growing anti-slavery lobby\, Parliament in London banned the slave trade
 . In 1810\, British forces seized the French Mascarene islands of Réunion 
 and Mauritius\, dominated by slave plantation economies. In 1815\, Réunion
  was handed back to France\, but Britain retained Mauritius because it saf
 eguarded the maritime route to India\, the “jewel” of the British Empire. 
 As Madagascar was the closest and thus cheapest supplier of provisions and
  servile labour required by the Mascarenes\, Farquhar\, governor of Maurit
 ius\, sought to bring it under British informal domination. In 1820\, Brit
 ain signed a treaty with Radama I (r. 1810-28) of Madagascar\, central to 
 which was the prohibition of slave exports in return for British aid – whi
 ch included the establishment there of a permanent British political agent
  and LMS missionaries charged with ensuring the application by Radama of t
 he anti-slave trade ban. However\, while espousing anti-slavery sentiments
 \, all British agents to Madagascar used unfree labour – something they di
 d their utmost to keep secret from their political and religious backers i
 n Britian. This paper explores the reasons for\, and nature of\, this clan
 destine exploitation of servile labour.\n
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LOCATION:116\, Peterson Hall\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0E6\, 3460 rue McTa
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SUMMARY:IOWC Winter Speaker Series - Prof. Gwyn Campbell 
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/history/channels/event/iowc-winter-speaker-series
 -prof-gwyn-campbell-362555
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