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DESCRIPTION:This talk by Gwyn Campbell is part of our Fall 2019 Policy Lect
 ure series. These academic talks are intended for McGill students and facu
 lty.\n\nThis talk examines British policy to slavery in the Indian Ocean w
 orld (IOW) – from Africa to China - from 1807\, when Britain abolished the
  slave trade\, to the end of WW2. It discusses what the British considered
  to constitute “slavery” and “slave”\, and its ambivalence during the colo
 nial period to slave holding by indigenous authorities\, and to forms of u
 nfree labour.\n\nRegister Here\n\nAbout Gwyn Campbell\n\nGwyn Campbell is 
 a Canada Research Chair In Indian Ocean World History. Born in Madagascar\
 , he grew up in Wales where he worked as a BBC radio producer in English a
 nd Welsh. He holds degrees in economic history from the universities of Bi
 rmingham and Wales and has previously taught in India (Voluntary Service O
 verseas) and at universities in Madagascar\, Britain\, South Africa\, Belg
 ium and France. He also served as an academic consultant for the South Afr
 ican Government in the first phase of inter-governmental meetings leading 
 to the 1997 formation of an Indian Ocean regional association.\n\nDirector
  of McGill’s Indian Ocean World Centre\, Gwyn Campbell is a specialist in 
 the economic history of the Indian Ocean region. A former collaborator on 
 the sub-Saharan Africa team of the National Geographic and IBM's Genograph
 ic Project (2005-2010) that did research into early human origins and migr
 ations\, he is currently undertaking research into slavery\, migration and
  diasporas in the Indian Ocean world\, as well as investigating the founda
 tions of the Indian Ocean world 'global' economy. He also has a strong int
 erest in the dynamics of minority cultures\, imperialism\, globalisation a
 nd third world development.\n\nHe is currently completing a manuscript on 
 Africa and the Indian Ocean world from early times to 1900\, which will ap
 pear in the Cambridge University Press New Perspective on African History 
 series\, and has recently published a book\, David Griffiths and the Missi
 onary 'History of Madagascar\,' as part of Brill's Studies in Christian Mi
 ssion series. Among his other interests are painting\, poetry and prose.\n
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LOCATION:6th Floor\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 3R1\, 680 Sherbrooke St. W.
SUMMARY:British Policy to Slavery in the Indian Ocean World 1807-1945
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/maxbellschool/channels/event/british-policy-slave
 ry-indian-ocean-world-1807-1945-302059
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