New Look News and Posts
The S&R site has a new look for news items and blog posts.
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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.
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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.
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Horatio Nelson to Simon Taylor, 10 June 1805
Horatio Nelson first met Simon Taylor during the American Revolutionary War, while stationed in Jamaica. The two remained in touch. As Nelson remarks towards the end of this letter, by 1805, they had been acquainted for about three decades. The letter was written while Nelson pursued the French fleet in the Caribbean, during the months before the Battle of Trafalgar, and in it Nelson expressed his opposition to William Wilberforce and the abolitionists.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Historiens de la CaraĂŻbe
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.
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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.
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12 Years a Slave on BBC History Extra
Dr Christer Petley, editor of the Slavery and Revolution website, answers questions on slavery and on the new movie, 12 Years a Slave, directed by Steve McQueen and based on the narrative of Solomon Northup. Click here for the ’60-second guide’.
Northup was a free man born in New York in 1808 who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1841 before reclaiming his freedom in 1853. Read his story, the basis for the film, here:Â http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/northup/northup.
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