Slavery and Revolution

Monthly Archives: November 2013

Student Essays about S&R Letters

By Christer Petley |

This month, students in History at the University of Southampton, on the Year 2 Option Module, The British Atlantic World, have been using the letters to frame seminar discussions. Students have brought excerpts of the letters to class, relating these to their wider reading on related topics like the transformation of the British empire and the fall of […]

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Last Caribbean Frontier

By Christer Petley |

Review by Christer Petley of The Last Caribbean Frontier by Kit Candlin, about Trinidad, Guyana and Grenada at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Click here

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Proslavery Priest

By Christer Petley |

Review by Christer Petley of a book by B.W. Higman about a proslavery Anglican clergyman in eighteenth century Jamaica. Click here

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