Name: SCEMS | Lecture | Catherine Hall
Start: 2023-04-27T17:15:00+01:00
End: 2023-04-27T18:30:00+01:00
Location: The Diamond, Lecture Theatre 9

SCEMS | Lecture | Catherine Hall

Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies

Making White and Black: Edward Long slaver and historian of Jamaica

The Diamond, Lecture Theatre 9

<p>In this talk I will introduce Edward Long whose History of Jamaica published in 1774 (and in print ever since) aimed to convince a metropolitan audience that slavery was absolutely essential to the wealth of Britain and that black people were naturally born to serve those who were white. Long’s account of Jamaica provides us with an extraordinarily detailed picture of how a particular system of what we now call ‘racial capitalism’  worked in the mid-eighteenth century Atlantic.</p>

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