Cultural defences against slavery and trafficking

这个项目旨在研究一个非洲奴隶，Josefa，他的故事可以为关于奴隶文化和理解奴隶制遗产的辩论提供信息。19世纪40年代，约瑟法被捕获并运到古巴销售，她继续着塞拉利昂的入会仪式。这个项目将使用档案研究和拍摄的口头采访，以发现她如何以及为什么这样做。由于塞拉利昂在1990年代之前一直存在同一个社会，其女孩在内战中受到奴役，因此该项目可以深入了解反对奴隶制的防御措施和奴隶贸易的遗产。这可以为今天打击人口贩运和澳大利亚应对贩运提供信息。

This project aims to study an African slave, Josefa, whose story could inform a debate about slave cultures and understanding of the legacies of slavery. Captured and shipped to Cuba for sale in the 1840s, Josefa kept alive her Sierra Leonean initiation rites. This project will use archival research and filmed oral interviews to discover how and why she managed to do this. Since the same society existed in Sierra Leone until the 1990s and its girls were enslaved in the civil war, this project could offer insight into defences against slavery, and the slave trade’s legacies. This could inform the fight against human trafficking today and Australia’s response to trafficking.