- Date: 16 November 2021
- Location: Main Building, Collegiate Crescent Campus, Sheffield Hallam University
- Registration: via Eventbrite
Please join the Helena Kennedy Centre for the launch of Professor Laura Murphy's new book Freedomville: The Story of a 21st Century Slave Revolt, recently published with Columbia Global Reports.
Baroness Helena Kennedy and Dr Sunita Toor will discuss the book with Professor Murphy on the 16th of November at 3 PM on the Collegiate Crescent Campus (Main Building, D104).
Freedomville tells the story of a community of people who were enslaved in India in the 21st century, and who overthrew their slaveholders and founded their own new village -- Freedomville. They were celebrated by the press and non-profits as anti-slavery heroes. But when Murphy returned to the village to learn more about the community's life after slavery, she learned that they kept a dark secret for a decade -- they had committed murder. The book explores the significance of violent protest and the "ngo-ification" of the stories of survivors of slavery.
The three scholars of human rights will discuss the implications of the revolt for human rights around the world.
