Introducing Sweet Tooth
How do we make sense of slavery? How can we represent its legacies? Historians try to do those things through the acts of writing and speaking.
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Magna Carta to Morant Bay
This seems to be a year of multiple anniversaries in British history.
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Plantations and Homes
This article is about the wealth and material culture of the Jamaican elite during the age of abolition.
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The Material Cultures of Slavery and Abolition
This is the introduction to a special issue of the journal Slavery and Abolition, which gathered together articles by historians and archaeologists seeking to shed new light on the system of slavery, and on the processes of abolition and emancipation, in the … Continue reading...
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Slavery, Abolition and Empire
Listen to podcasts by Christer Petley, interviewed by Christopher Prior, about slavery in the British Empire, the abolition of the slave trade and the ending of slavery.
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Anxious Patriarchs
This post is an expanded version of a comment I made today on the Junto Blog Summer Book Club discussion about Kathleen Brown’s Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, & Anxious Patriarchs.
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Empire’s Crossroads
The Caribbean is, and has been, a crossroads in human history. It has been a site of convergence – where people have met, fought, exploited one another, and created new cultures.
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The Fall of the Planter Class
This is the introduction to a special issue of the journal Atlantic Studies, about the fall of the planters.
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Gluttony, Excess, and the Fall of the Planter Class
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.
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Call for Papers
The ACH is pleased to receive paper and panel applications for next year’s conference. Members suggested several themes at this year’s Annual General Meeting in Martinique.
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