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PhD thesis Prize for Rafael Thiebaut

The PhD thesis of postdoctoral researcher Rafaël Thiébaut won the 2018 Thesis Prize of the Comité national pour la mémoire et l’histoire de l’esclavage (http://www.cnmhe.fr/). In his thesis he retraces the political, economic and social consequences and the quantitative aspects of the slave trade done by European mercantile trading companies on Madagascar during a period of two hundred years (1596-1810). Rafaël defended his thesis entitled Traites des esclaves et commerce néerlandais et français à Madagascar (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles) in November 2017 under joint supervision of Professor Ulbe Bosma (IISG and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) and Professor Bertrand Hirsch (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne). The award ceremony will take place in Paris on the 23th of May. Rafaël received the prize from Annick Girardin, French minister of Overseas territories.

Posted: 
23 May 2018