Dr Kehinde Andrews was born in January 1983 and is currently Professor of Black Studies at Birmingham City University. He has a Bsc. in Psychology, an MA Social Research and a PhD in Sociology and Cultural Studies. 

His specialisms are Race, racism and ethnicity; Black Studies; Ethnography; Community activism and Scholar activism. 

He is also Director of the Centre for Critical Social Research, founder of the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity (blackunity.org.uk) and co-chair of the Black Studies Association.

• Last updated: June 2020

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SLAVE CODES: SLAVERY LEGISLATION IN THE SWEDISH AND DANISH EMPIRES

The African slaves were considered as treacherous and evil, not deserving to be considered human.

SLAVE CODES: SLAVERY LEGISLATION IN ENGLISH AND FRENCH EMPIRES

What emerged from the articles of the Barbadian Code was, in conclusion, a system of regulation of slavery designed to control the entire workforce, built on the conviction that primitives and barbarian Africans were naturally destined to be slaves because of their inferiority from a cultural and racial point of view.