The Antislavery Useable Past

 

 

Rights Lab project lead: Kevin Bales. In collaboration with the University of Hull and Queens University Belfast.
Funder: Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
Duration: September 2014-August 2019
Programme: Law and Policy

This project provided the contemporary global antislavery movement with a usable past of history's antislavery examples and methods. We brought to the present the important lessons from antislavery movements and policies of the past, and helped translate those lessons into effective tools for policy makers, civil society, and citizens. We identified, theorised and embedded antislavery as a protest memory for contemporary abolitionism, focusing in particular on how antislavery organisations deploy survivors' voices and imagery.