Repertoires of Slavery: Dutch Theater Between Abolitionism and Colonial Subjection (Amsterdam University Press, 2023)

By. dr. Sarah J. Adams (Ghent University / Utrecht University)

Thursday, 22 February 2024, 4PM

Meeting Room ‘Avalon’, Blandijnberg 2 (3^rd floor), Ghent

Join GEMS (Group for Early Modern Studies, UGent) on the 22th of February for a Book Presentation by our member dr. Sarah J. Adams. She will present her new book Repertoires of Slavery: Dutch Theater Between Abolitionism and Colonial Subjection, 1770-1810 (University Press Amsterdam, 2023). Through the lens of a hitherto unstudied repertoire of Dutch abolitionist theatre productions, Repertoires of Slavery prises open the conflicting ideological functions of antislavery discourse within and outside the walls of the theatre and examines the ways in which abolitionist protesters wielded the strife-ridden question of slavery to negotiate the meanings of human rights, subjecthood, and subjection.

For more information and to order the book, you can follow this link: https://www.aup.nl

Please let us know if you can attend by the 16th of February through the following link: https://forms.gle/kuPeG66SofhWZjaSA