The LLDRL in the classroom: The Great Paradox: Chattel Slavery in North America, with Dr. Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey

As part of continued teaching initiatives on Slavery and the Law at the Faculty of Law (initially fostered via a 2016-2017 specialized seminar by Professor Adelle Blackett), the LLDRL hosted a lecture during a special plenary in the 2L Property course.

October 2021

About the speaker

(Nii Laryea Osabu I, Oblantai Mantse Atrekor We) is working on his second and third book projects on warfare and African-led abolitionism on the Gulf of Guinea Coast, and gender and messianic Black revolutionary leadership in the United States, respectively.

Dr. Adjetey’s first monograph is  (UNC Press, 2023). It situates fundamental questions of twentieth-century U.S. history—immigration, civil rights, racial identity, revolution, counter-revolution, imperialism, and neo-colonialism—within a diasporic North American and transatlantic frame. Cross-Border Cosmopolitans is the result of a major transformation of Dr. Adjetey’s Ph.D. dissertation, which won Yale University’s Edwin M. Small Prize for “outstanding” contribution to U.S. history, Sylvia Ardyn Boone Prize for African American Studies, the Canadian Studies Prize, and the Willard “Woody” Brittain, Jr. Award.

Teaching Slavery and the Law at 鶹 

To learn more about the initiative that started it all, please consult the "Digging Deeper" column on our "" page. We also invite you to read  on teaching Critical Race Theory and Slavery and the Law at 鶹's Faculty of Law. 

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