September 17 2020
For first instalment of the 2020-2021 “Slavery and the Law” series, Professor Afua Cooper (Dalhousie) participated in a plenary class for the Property course taught by Professors Tina Piper, Lionel Smith and Pierre-Emmanuel Moyse.
About the speaker
A faculty member of the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology of Dalhousie University, Professor Afua Cooper is the Chair of the Scholarly Panel on Lord Dalhousie's Relationship to Race and Slavery and co-author of the Report. She is also the former James Robinson Johnston Chair in Black Canadian Studies.
Her research interests are African Canadian studies, with specific regard to the period of enslavement and emancipation in 18th and 19th century Canada and the Black Atlantic; African-Nova Scotian history; political consciousness; community building and culture; slavery’s aftermath; Black youth studies.
Teaching Slavery and the Law at McGill
To learn more about the initiative that started it all, please consult the "Digging Deeper" column on our "Courses" page. We also invite you to read Professor Adelle Blackett's reflections on teaching Critical Race Theory and Slavery and the Law at McGill University's Faculty of Law.
