Sandra E. Greene
Professor of African history at Cornell University and author of Slave Owners of West Africa; specializes in 18th–19th century Ghanaian history, slavery, and oral history research.
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Feb 28, 2026 • 42min
Sandra E. Greene, “Slave Owners of West Africa: Decision Making in the Age of Abolition” (Indiana UP, 2017)
Sandra E. Greene, Professor of African History and author, explores three 19th-century West African elites who owned slaves. She recounts their different responses to abolition and colonization. Short, vivid biographies reveal tough moral choices, strategies of adaptation, and the local sensitivities around researching slavery.
Feb 28, 2026 • 42min
Sandra E. Greene, “Slave Owners of West Africa: Decision Making in the Age of Abolition” (Indiana UP, 2017)
Sandra E. Greene, a Cornell professor of African history who studies 18th–19th century Ghana and oral history, discusses biographies of three wealthy men who owned dependents and navigated abolition and colonial rule. The conversation covers research methods, why she turned to slave owners, differing strategies these men used, and sensitivities around studying families with slaveholding pasts.
