1- Séminaire: “Captifs de case (House Slaves) in a West African Urban Slaving Society. Questions of Status and Role in Eighteenth-Century Saint-Louis du Senegal”

Mardi 16 Mars 2010 :

Ibrahima Thioub, Professeur invité à University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

2-Séminaire : “To cut the bonds of slavery/ Couper la corde de l’esclavage/ Dok bumu jam. Slavery and the trade in captives in Senegambia in the 18th and 19th centuries”

Mardi 30 Mars 2010 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor :

1-Institute for the Humanities

2-Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

3-African Studies Center et le Law in Slavery and Freedom Project

Programme :  

Osterman Conference Room, UM Institute for the Humanities, 202 South Thayer Street.

9:30-12:00. Freedom and Captivity.

Rudolph Ware : The Book in Chains: The Revolution of Fuuta Toro and the Problem of Slavery

Ibrahima Thioub :‘Captifs de case’: Status and Role in Eighteenth-Century Saint-Louis du Sénégal

Rebecca Scott and Jean-Michel Hébrard : From Senegambia to Saint-Domingue: Rosalie of the Poulard Nation

Discussants : Mamadou Diouf (Columbia University), Mara Leichtman (MSU), other invited guests, students, audience

2:30PM - 5 PM.  Getting the documents to speak.

Mamadou Diouf : Freedom papers drawn up for slaveholders in Saint-Louis du Sénégal

Ibrahima Thioub : An appeal for freedom addressed to the French colonial authorities

Rudolph Ware : African Abolition: The Almamy of Fuuta Toro in Thomas Clarkson's Letters on the Slave Trade, 1787-1791

Jean Hébrard : 'It's time to go to Galam!': The role of the French in the organization of the slave trade on the Senegal River

Comment : Judith Irvine (Anthropology, UM), other invited guests, students, and audience