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The Fall of the Planter Class

By Christer Petley |

This is the introduction to a special issue of the journal Atlantic Studies, about the fall of the planters. It argues that the difficulties faced by the planter class in the British West Indies from the 1780s were an early episode in a wider drama of decline for New World plantation economies. The American historian Lowell Ragatz […]

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Gluttony, Excess, and the Fall of the Planter Class

By Christer Petley |

Food and rituals around eating are a fundamental part of human existence. They can also be heavily politicized and socially significant. In the British Caribbean, white slaveholders were renowned for their hospitality towards one another and towards white visitors. This was no simple quirk of local character. Hospitality and sociability played a crucial role in […]

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Nelson and Slavery

By Christer Petley |

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.

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Slaveholders’ Things

By Christer Petley |

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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Agency of the Enslaved

By Christer Petley |

Review by Christer Petley of Agency of the Enslaved, a book about slave resistance in Jamaica by Daive Dunkley. Click here

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