→ Slavery and the Law: An Essay Collection
While studying law at McGill University, I took some incredible and fascinating courses. One that topped my list was Slavery and the Law taught by Prof. Adelle Blackett.
I loved this course for so many reasons — too many to list here. I appreciated the opportunity to write thoughtful commentaries on four books that we were assigned to read in this class.
I’m proud enough of what I wrote for that course that I’m sharing my pieces here. I wrote these essays in autumn 2016.
(pro)claiming Angélique’s story: framing Canada’s slave history
Multiple Consciousness and Zong! as Remembering, Mourning and Disruption of Legal Pedagogy
Marronage and Mass Resistance as Jurisgenerative Law-Making in the Saint Domingue Revolution
Ethical Co-optation: Facilitating Social Justice & Progressive Politics Through and With Mrs. Dred Scott
in Canada in McGill’s Faculty of Law
Other than slight stylistic and copyediting changes for improved readability, I have reproduced these essays here as I wrote them in 2016.