March 29, 2012
Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre
Slavery and Finance in Britain's Empire of Free Trade
Robin Blackburn, author of Age Shock: How Finance is Failing Us will present the annual Neale Lecture, opening this year's Neale Colluquium, "Emancipation, slave-ownership and the remaking of the British imperial world". The conference is organised by the Legacies of British Slave-ownership project in the Department of History, UCL. Blackburn's lecture will be on 'Slavery and Finance in Britain's Empire of Free Trade'.
This a free, public lecture, and will start at 5.30pm. Registration is required, please RSVP to lbs@ucl.ac.uk
For details of the conference, please the UCL website.
5.30pm
Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre
Main Building, University College London Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
Authors
Books
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Age Shock
A searing look at the fiscal crisis of an aging society, with radical new proposals. -
The American Crucible
A landmark history of the rise, abolition, and legacy of slavery in the New World.