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The LLDRL in the classroom: The Great Paradox: Chattel Slavery in North America, with Dr. Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey

As鈥痯art of continued teaching initiatives on Slavery and the Law at the Faculty of Law (initially fostered via a 2016-2017 specialized seminar by Professor Adelle Blackett), the LLDRL鈥痟osted a lecture during a special plenary in the 2L Property course.

October 2021听听

About the speaker听听

(Nii Laryea Osabu I, Oblantai Mantse Atrekor We) is working on his second and third book projects on warfare and African-led abolitionism on the Gulf of Guinea Coast, and gender and messianic Black revolutionary leadership in the United States, respectively.听

Dr. Adjetey鈥檚 first monograph is鈥(UNC Press, 2023).鈥疘t situates fundamental questions of twentieth-century U.S. history鈥攊mmigration, civil rights, racial identity, revolution, counter-revolution, imperialism, and neo-colonialism鈥攚ithin a diasporic North American and transatlantic frame.鈥疌ross-Border Cosmopolitans鈥痠s the result of a major transformation of Dr. Adjetey鈥檚 Ph.D. dissertation, which won Yale University鈥檚 Edwin M. Small Prize for 鈥渙utstanding鈥 contribution to U.S. history, Sylvia Ardyn Boone Prize for African American Studies, the Canadian Studies Prize, and the Willard 鈥淲oody鈥 Brittain, Jr. Award.听

Teaching Slavery and the Law at 不良研究所鈥

To learn more about the initiative that started it all, please consult the "Digging Deeper" column on our "" page. We also invite you to read鈥痮n teaching Critical Race Theory and Slavery and the Law at 不良研究所's Faculty of Law.鈥

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