Slavery

Conference on resistance against enslavement 2013

June 23, 2013

IISR organized an international conference on the resistance against enslavement in Amsterdam on June 29-30 2013. It was the year of the commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the legal abolition of enslavement in the Dutch colonies.

Here are three papers that were presented at the conference:

Rudy Uda dealt with the culture of resistance: RU_Slavery20130630_Proverbs.pdfRU_Slavery20130630_Proverb.Stephen Small goes into cultural traumas and the legacy of enslavement: RU_Slavery20130630_Proverbs.

Sandew Hira analyses the Haitian revolution: SH_Slavery_20130630_Haiti. The powerpoint is here: PowerpointSH_Slavery_20130630_Haiti.