University of Southampton

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 […]

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

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

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.

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 […]