## Section II: Chapter 5  
Klara BOYER-ROSSOL is an African historian specializing in the slave trade and slavery in Madagascar. Her doctoral thesis on the Makoa in western Madagascar was awarded the 2016 Thesis Prize of the Comité National pour la Mémoire et l'Histoire de l'esclavage (National Committee for the Memory and History of Slavery). She subsequently became interested in exploring the links between slavery and the circulation of knowledge and naturalist collections on Madagascar and East Africa during the long 19th century.