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<p>Join Thad Dunning, Robson Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley and Director of the Center on the Politics of Development, for a Global Challenges to Democracy seminar.</p><p>A vast literature highlights the political, social and economic consequences of slavery. Yet, previous research—particularly in political science and on Latin America—appears to have missed important channels through which the regulation of slavery contributed crucially to state-building. Dunning argues that the regulation of slavery in imperial Brazil contributed to the construction of a bureaucracy that was, in many ways, autonomous from slaveholder interests. He proposes that this autonomy was driven by the imperatives of political survival.</p><p>Dunning then empirically examines two main vehicles through which an autonomous state was built: responses to lawsuits for freedom brought on behalf of enslaved persons and appeals for protection within the carceral system. The argument may also offer new comparative insights into state-building in the Americas.</p><p><em>Lunch will be served starting at 11:45 AM.</em></p>
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