Slavery, Criminalisation, Citizenship and Mobility – Talk, Film and Book Launch

In the Atlantic World, the enslaved were simultaneously constructed as objects of property and criminally culpable persons. Following slavery’s legal abolition, criminalisation remained central to the exclusion of formerly enslaved people and their descendants from rights, freedom and citizenship, and so to the continued coding of freedom as white. This event through talks, discussion and film screening addresses the on-going relationship between slavery, criminalisation, citizenship and mobility – from the framing of certain criminalised activities (especially those associated with migration, sex work, and drugs trafficking) as ‘modern slavery’ in the UK, to the highly racialised ‘world of crime’ in Brazil.

The event is organised as part of the activities of the University of Bristol ERC Research Project ‘Modern Marronage: The pursuit and practice of freedom in the contemporary world’ and the MMB research challenge Control, Conflict, Resistance.

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