I’m currently a sixth year Ph.D. History candidate at the University of Pennsylvania.
My dissertation examines the disparities in indemnities distributed by Britain to European powers and African sovereigns for slave trade abolition compliance from 1807 to the 1884 Berlin Conference and documents and analyzes 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.
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
B.A., International Relations and African Studies, University of Pennsylvania (2015)
Comparative slavery, the transAtlantic slave trade, abolition and emancipation, and reparations in the African diaspora.
TA, African Since 1800 (Fall 2020)
TA, American Origins (Spring 2021)
Instructor, Beyond 40 Acres and a Mule: The History and Practice of Reparations (Spring 2025)
The Penn and Slavery Project
The Center for Experimental Ethnography
Price Lab for Digital Humanities