Périodiser la fin de l’esclavage : le droit colonial, la Société des Nations et la résistance des esclaves dans le Sahel Nigérien, 1920-1930
- Submitting institution
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The University of Birmingham
- Unit of assessment
- 25 - Area Studies
- Output identifier
- 43003629
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1017/S0395264918000598
- Title of journal
- Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales
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- First page
- 983
- Volume
- 72
- Issue
- 4
- ISSN
- 2398-5682
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- Yes
- English abstract
- Emancipation from slavery in the central Sahel started happening not when legal abolition laws were passed, but decades later, when international surveillance mechanisms that threatened to delegitimize colonial rule were established. The first section discusses the roles of the League of Nations, the French state, and French administrators on the ground. The second section develops a microanalysis of slave resistance, showing how enslaved and trafficked persons, especially young women, profited from global institutional transformations to incriminate slavers. The final section considers the contemporary autobiographic recollections of a formerly enslaved woman in a context marked by pro-slavery discourses and grassroots abolitionism.