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X-WR-CALNAME:Richard Roberts | The Senegal Liberations Project
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DESCRIPTION:Most 19th-century people enslaved in Africa remained on the Afr
 ican continent\, yet we know relatively little about slavery and freedom i
 n Africa. For descendant communities\, and those around the world who cont
 inue to live in slavery’s centuries-long repercussions\, this project op
 ens access to sources\, tools\, and analysis to craft a fuller and more ju
 st narrative of this fraught moment in global history. This is especially 
 true in Senegal\, where the stigma in enslaved descent continues to stifle
  equity and social mobility. The source for this project is the colonial e
 ra Registers of Liberation (1857–1903)\, which documents 28\,349 enslave
 d Africans in Senegal who presented themselves to French colonial official
 s to request certificates of liberty. Each entry tells an untold story of 
 an enslaved person actively seeking freedom\, often through enormous chall
 enges. Taken together\, they provide crucial evidence on the enslaved popu
 lation and paths they took towards freedom.  \n\nLunch at 11:45 a.m. for i
 n-person attendees\n\nRegister to join online\n \n\nAbout the Speaker\n\nR
 ichard Roberts is the Frances and Charles Field Professor of History Emeri
 tus at Stanford and has published widely in the social\, economic\, and le
 gal history of French West Africa. He has published four monographs\, two 
 of which have been translated into French\, and co-edited 12 books or spec
 ial editions of journals. His most recent book is Conflicts of Colonialism
 : The Rule of Law\, French Soudan\, and Faama Mademba Sèye\, published by
  Cambridge University Press\, and his most recent collection co-edited wit
 h Walter Hawthorne\, Fatoumata Seck\, and Rebecca Wall was “The Politics
  and Ethics of Naming the Names of Enslaved People in Digital Humanities P
 rojects\,” was published by Digital Humanities Quarterly in 2025.
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LOCATION:Building 160\, Wallenberg Hall\, 433A
SUMMARY:Richard Roberts | The Senegal Liberations Project
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.stanford.edu/event/richard-roberts-the-senegal
 -liberations-project
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