Diplomatic History of Abolitionism, 1760-1865

This course deploys insights and metholodogies from "new" diplomatic history to account for a landmark process which shaped the birth of the modern world, the abolition of slavery and the slave trade. We will not only seek to account for how changes in diplomatic practice conditioned the struggle for abolition, but also for how new arguments and strategies for the abolition of slavery transformed the diplomatic world in ways which still reverberate in the actions and institutions of contemporary international bodies, from NGOs to national embassies and the United Nations.