Benedetta Rossi

Benedetta Rossi works on twentieth and nineteenth century African history with a focus on slavery and other forms of unfreedom, abolition and abolitionism, labour, migration, planned development, and gender. She is currently working on a book project entitled Slavery and Abolition in Twentieth Century Africa, as well as on a number of collaborative writing and editorial projects on the global history of abolitionism. Between October 2020 and September 2025, she holds an Advanced Grant of the European Research Council on African Abolitionism: The Rise and Transformations of Anti-Slavery in Africa (AFRAB, grant no. 885418).