The ACH is pleased to receive paper and panel applications for next year’s conference. Members suggested several themes at this year’s Annual General Meeting in Martinique. While papers on these ideas are encouraged, applicants are welcome to submit proposals about other subjects or ideas. Click here for full details about the themes and information about how to submit a proposal.
Category Archives: S&R News and Posts
New Look News and Posts
The S&R site has a new look for news items and blog posts. Watch this space for more updates!
Nelson and Slavery
Listen to Christer Petley’s paper about Horatio Nelson, slavery and the Caribbean. It was presented to a conference about the Royal Navy and the British Atlantic empire, hosted by the National Museum of the Royal Navy in Portsmouth. See the letter that Nelson sent to Simon Taylor here.
British Slave Emancipation in France Antilles
An interview about slave emancipation in the British Caribbean with Christer Petley for the newspaper France-Antilles. Click here for a link to the article.
Royal Navy and the Caribbean
At a conference in Portsmouth next week, Christer Petley will discuss connections between the Royal Navy and slavery in the Caribbean, focusing on the relationship between Horatio Nelson and Simon Taylor. See this part of the S&R site to view the letter that Nelson sent to Taylor and which William Cobbett posted in his Political Register in February 1807, as part of a last ditch effort to stall the Abolition Bill as it passed through parliament.
Successful Conference!
Thanks to the Association of Caribbean Historians for an excellent annual conference in Martinique! It was good also to get to see the awesome Mont Pelée. Click here for more on its devastating eruption in 1902.
Slaveholders' Things
Christer Petley, editor of S&R, presented a paper about the material culture of the Jamaican planter class at the Association of Caribbean Historians annual conference in Martinique. This is a version of the paper:
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Historiens de la Caraïbe
The 46th annual conference of the Association of Caribbean Historians will take place between 11 and 17 May at the Universite des Antilles et de la Guyane in Martinique. Christer Petley (editor of S&R) will present a paper about the material culture of Jamaican slaveholders.
Agency of the Enslaved
Review by Christer Petley of Agency of the Enslaved, a book about slave resistance in Jamaica by Daive Dunkley. Click here
Scandal of Colonial Rule
Dr Christer Petley, editor of the Slavery and Revolution website, reviews The Scandal of Colonial Rule, a book by Professor James Epstein of Vanderbilt University about the Caribbean, slavery and the British empire. It is an imaginative and innovative new take on these subjects. Important and unique not just because of its focus on Trinidad (often overlooked in favour of Jamaica or Barbados), Epstein’s book shines new light on the place of Caribbean slavery within wider debates about the transformation of the British empire in the Age of Revolution. It is ‘an imaginative and engrossing study, a model of painstaking scholarship, which is marked by its compelling arguments and incisive writing.’ Click here for the full review.