Klarke Stricklen

Research Topic

Our Bodies Built the World: Centering Enslaved Women in the Story of Compensated Emancipation and Reparations

I am interested in contemporary reparations for descendants of enslaved Africans across the Caribbean and the Americas. Our Bodies Built the World is a microhistory of the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833, focusing specifically on the stipulation of compensation for slave owners and centering enslaved women within this narrative. This dissertation is a diasporic exploration and seeks to contribute meaningfully to conversations on silence, memory, and reparations grounded in transnational solidarity. 

Research Interests: 

• 19th-century Slavery and Abolition in the Caribbean and North America 

• Colonization, Capitalism, and the Creation of Human Capital 

• Gender, Class, and Race 

• Value, Memory, and Silence

Supervisor: Brenda Stevenson and Meryem Kalayci