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Schwöbel-Patel, Christine (2022) The precarious agency of racialised recaptives. London Review of International Law, 10 (1). pp. 151-158. doi:10.1093/lril/lrac005 ISSN 2050-6325.
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Abstract
In the summer of 2020, Black Lives Matter protestors toppled the statue of slave trader Edward Colston into Bristol Harbour. Debates on monuments, in particular monuments to the men who sustained, supported, and benefited from racialising practices such as the slave trade, continue to divide. In Bristol, where there was agreement on removing the Colston statue from its prominent position, the debate soon moved to the question of who or what should replace the fallen statue.1 A recurring suggestion has been to replace Colston’s statue with that of British abolitionist William Wilberforce.2 Wilberforce, along with Thomas Clarkson and George Fox, is among the names of those white British men credited with successfully influencing the necessary policies and laws to ban the slave trade, and later slavery itself. This narrative is very much in line with a redemptive story of slavery at the imperial centre. The abolition of the...
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races K Law [Moys] > KC International Law |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Antislavery movements -- History, International criminal law, Slavery -- Law and legislation, Slave trade -- History, Mass media -- Social aspects | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | London Review of International Law | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 2050-6325 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | March 2022 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 10 | ||||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 151-158 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1093/lril/lrac005 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in London Review of International Law following peer review. The version of record Christine Schwöbel-Patel, The precarious agency of racialised recaptives, London Review of International Law, 2022;, lrac005 is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/lril/lrac005 | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 24 May 2022 |
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