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December 11: Lecture by Robin Blackburn: Who invented Human Rights?

28 November 2014
Lecturer(s)
Robin Blackburn
Lecture number
1
Date
28-11-2014
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Robin Blackburn Lecture Who invented Human Rights

This lecture examines the role of anti-slavery and slave resistance in the elaboration of 'human rights' and the misappropriation of such ideas by Western colonialism and militarism.

Robin Blackburn is a historian and sociologist, and one of New Left Review’s editors. Blackburn teaches at the New School in New York and the University of Essex in the UK. He is the author of many books, including The Making of New World Slavery, The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery, Age Shock, Banking on Death, and The American Crucible.

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