Breanna Moore

I’m currently a sixth year Ph.D. History candidate at the University of Pennsylvania.

My expertise is the abolition of the slave trade in the nineteenth century with an emphasis on the histories of the British Empire and the connections between the United States, the Caribbean, and the Sierra Leone colony. My fields are African American history, the transAtlantic slave trade, and comparative slavery.

My research interests include reparations, emancipation, and abolition in the African diaspora. 

My dissertation provides a comparative analysis of the disparities in indemnities distributed by Britain to Western powers and African sovereigns for slave trade abolition compliance from 1807 to the 1884 Berlin Conference. I document and examine the moral and legal discourses surrounding redress and compensation for liberated African recaptives and African sovereigns in West Africa. Britain made nearly two hundred anti-slave trade treaties during the era of slave trade abolition. The treaties, legal instruments used to codify indemnities, represent a significant body of legal activity that recalibrated the global order at the end of the slave trade. My scholarship illuminates the material circumstances and political consequences of Britain's slave trade suppression campaign in the nineteenth century.  

My passion is to disseminate diverse histories to the public inside and outside of academic spaces through multimodal mediums such as film, digital media, fashion, and public history projects. 

You can learn more at breannamoore.com.

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Advisor: Kathleen Brown