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IAS Talking Points Seminar: African Kings and Black Slaves

by Herman L Bennett (CUNY). Discussant: Toby Green (Kings College London)

Bennett

29 October 2018

Through an examination of early modern African-European encounters, African Kings and Black Slaves offers a reappraisal of the dominant depiction of these exchanges as being solely mediated through the slave trade and racial difference. By asking in what manner did Europeans and Africans configure sovereignty, polities, and subject status, Bennett offers a new depiction of the diasporic identities that had implications for slaves’ experiences in the Americas.

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