{"id":657,"date":"2014-06-12T13:54:38","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T12:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/?p=657"},"modified":"2014-06-12T13:54:38","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T12:54:38","slug":"royal-navy-and-the-caribbean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/2014\/06\/12\/royal-navy-and-the-caribbean\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Navy and the Caribbean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a conference in Portsmouth next week, Christer Petley will discuss connections between the Royal Navy\u00a0and slavery in the Caribbean, focusing on the relationship between Horatio Nelson and Simon Taylor. See<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a title=\"Horatio Nelson to Simon Taylor, 10 June 1805\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/1807\/02\/21\/horatio-nelson-to-simon-taylor-10-june-1805\/\"><span style=\"color: #1b8be0\">this part of the S&amp;R site<\/span><\/a><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>to view the letter that Nelson sent to Taylor and which William Cobbett posted in his<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><em>Political Register<\/em><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>in February 1807, as part of a last ditch effort to stall the Abolition Bill as it passed through parliament.<\/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>At a conference in Portsmouth next week, Christer Petley will discuss connections between the Royal Navy\u00a0and slavery in the Caribbean, focusing on the relationship between Horatio Nelson and Simon Taylor. See\u00a0this part of the S&amp;R site\u00a0to view the letter that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/2014\/06\/12\/royal-navy-and-the-caribbean\/\">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,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[57,65,71],"class_list":["post-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-posts","tag-caribbean","tag-empire","tag-history"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}