{"id":14,"date":"2012-08-15T17:42:15","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T16:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.blogs.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2012-08-15T17:42:15","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T16:42:15","slug":"jamaican-slavery-in-the-age-of-revolution-the-letters-of-simon-taylor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This site is about <a title=\"Jamaica\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/jamaica\/\">Jamaica <\/a>and <a title=\"Slavery\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/slavery\/\">slavery<\/a> during the Age of Revolution.<br \/>\nFind out about slavery and abolition during the\u00a0period shaped by the American, French and Haitian Revolutions &#8211; between about 1775 and 1820\u00a0&#8211; using the\u00a0&#8216;<a title=\"Contexts\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/background\/\">contexts<\/a>&#8216; section as well as exploring\u00a0detailed source material, news and updates.<br \/>\nThe main focus of the site is a collection of <a title=\"Letters\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/category\/the-letters\/\">letters<\/a> written by <a title=\"Simon Taylor\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/simon-taylor-and-jamaican-slavery\/\">Simon Taylor<\/a>, a wealthy and powerful <a title=\"Slaveholders in Jamaica\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/slaveholders-in-jamaica\/\">Jamaican slaveholder<\/a>. These letters are an important source of information about Caribbean slavery during the Age of Revolution that\u00a0provide one important\u00a0way into\u00a0exploring how slaveholding was perpetuated, resisted and,\u00a0eventually, ended in the British empire.<br \/>\nIn addition you can find\u00a0<a title=\"News and Posts\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/category\/news-and-posts\/\">news and posts<\/a> about the histories of slavery, resistance and abolition. These updates focus on academic work and events, as well as on public history and work by students.<br \/>\nYou can keep up with news about the Slavery and Revolution site and the themes it covers on twitter, via <a title=\"SlandRev\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/SlandRev\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@SlandRev<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This site is about Jamaica and slavery during the Age of Revolution. Find out about slavery and abolition during the\u00a0period shaped by the American, French and Haitian Revolutions &#8211; between about 1775 and 1820\u00a0&#8211; using the\u00a0&#8216;contexts&#8216; section as well as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":868,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"showcase.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/868"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}