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Slavery and the Revival of Anti-slavery Activism

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Revisiting Slavery and Antislavery

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This chapter sets out the volume’s critical approach to the dominant discourse on modern slavery and its impulse to question the assumptions and the politics behind that discourse. It explores the limits of the modern slavery rhetoric for understanding the complicated logics of agency, freedom and belonging, and of past, present and future, for those who are constituted as slaves.

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Brace, L., O’Connell Davidson, J. (2018). Slavery and the Revival of Anti-slavery Activism. In: Brace, L., O'Connell Davidson, J. (eds) Revisiting Slavery and Antislavery. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90623-2_1

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