Slavery, freedom and colonial development: Robert Bostock and his legacy

了解我们的国家和我们的世界是当今澳大利亚面临的主要挑战之一。西非，一个被大多数澳大利亚人认为遥远而难以理解的地区，对澳大利亚和其他西方国家的影响越来越大，而这一点却鲜为人知。该项目将有助于确保澳大利亚学术在奴隶研究和殖民历史研究方面保持领先地位，并将加强在这一领域工作的学者的国际网络。它将确保国家对一个具有重大国际重要性的问题——人口贩运——的投入，并更普遍地促进学术领导。

Understanding our nation and our world is one of the major challenges facing Australia in the present day. West Africa, a region perceived by most Australians to be distant and incomprehensible, increasingly has an effect on Australia and other western nations which is little understood. This project will help to ensure that Australian scholarship remains at the cutting edge of research into slave studies and colonial history more generally, and will bolster international networks of scholars working in this area. It will ensure national input into an issue of major international importance - human trafficking - and promote academic leadership more generally.