#  Manuel Barcia, 'Abolitionism and the Global Suppression of ‘Piracy’ in the Nineteenth Century' 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **March 11, 2025** 

 04:00PM - 04:00PM EDT 

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 **Faculty Club | 20 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138**  



 

 



 

 This lecture queries the ways in which abolitionist policies around the world were implemented roughly between the mid-1820s and late 1860s, focusing on how they often supported imperialist endeavors. Expanding well-beyond the Atlantic, it hopes to reveal how transnational Abolitionism often served expansionist agendas, and acted as a back-door for new forms of labour exploitation. The lecture also compares how Abolitionism was used as a shield by politicians, officers, missionaries, and others, while engaging in questionable imperialist practices around the world.

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