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Author Archives: Christer Petley

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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S&R Resources in Use @ UoS

By Christer Petley |

This year several students in History at the University of Southampton have been using the letters and other resources on the site in their work. The letters have provided a focus for seminar discussions on the conflict over slavery and proslavery politics in the Year 3 Special Subject module on slavery and freedom.

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Nelson’s Caribbean

By Christer Petley |

Sam Willis (@shipwreck_sam), pictured, presents a BBC documentary about Caribbean slavery and the Royal Navy. Thousands of British servicemen died during the wars between Britain and Revolutionary France, defending sugar and slavery in Caribbean islands like Jamaica and Antigua. The documentary includes comments from the editor of the S&R site, Christer Petley. This is the […]

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Site Launched!

By Christer Petley |

Welcome to the Slavery and Revolution site. The first batch of selections, uploaded this month, is taken from letters sent by Simon Taylor in Jamaica to his friend and fellow plantation owner Chaloner Arcedeckne, who lived in Britain. The excerpts presented are from letters written between 1781 and 1793, a period that saw the ending […]

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