Hosted by the London School of Economics and Political Science
In-person public event (LSE campus, venue tbc to ticketholders)
Thursday 09 Oct 2025 6pm - 7pm
Join Jake Subryan Richards as
he discusses the research and creative process behind the award-winning Black Atlantic exhibition which will be coming to LSE in October.
The exhibition, which was first shown at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, reveals the stories that have been silenced from history, not just stories of exploitation, but those of resilience and liberation, too. It shows how through resisting colonial slavery, people produced new cultures known as the Black Atlantic, that continue to shape our world.
Meet our speaker
Jake Subryan Richards (@Jake_S_Richards) is Assistant Professor in the Department of International History at LSE. He is a historian of law, empire, and the African diaspora in the Atlantic world. His research concerns how enslaved and free people interacted with law in a world structured by Atlantic empires. His first book project analyzes the history of the suppression of the transatlantic trade in enslaved African people. The book investigates the legal status attributed to people ‘liberated’ from slaving ships by naval patrols and subjected to bonded apprenticeship. He has published his research in Past and Present, Comparative Studies in Society and History, and Modern Intellectual History.
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