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You are warmly invited to the following seminar and book launch on Wednesday 28th October: ** Please note room change: Room G34 Ground Floor, Senate House, Malet St, London Abstract below Slaveholders in Jamaica: Colonial Society and Culture during the Era of Abolition: Seminar and Book Launch Seminar: Christer Petley, University of Southampton Launch: Professor Gad Heuman, University of Warwick Wednesday 28 October, 17:00 - 19:30 Venue: Room G32 (Senate House, Ground Floor) The seminar will be followed by a wine reception Abstract The Atlantic slave economy was crucial to Britain’s colonial enterprise during the eighteenth century but, after the 1780s, abolitionist campaigns helped to undermine the influence and power of British slaveholders. As inhabitants of the largest and most lucrative of the sugar islands in the British empire, slaveholders in Jamaica found themselves at the centre of a transatlantic conflict over the future of slavery, facing vehement political opposition from reformers in the metropole and encountering new kinds of local challenges. Slaveholders in Jamaica combines social and cultural history to explore the composition, social relations and cultural attitudes of the Jamaican slaveholding class during this era. It looks at how white colonists tried to maintain control over Jamaican society and provides a detailed account of their violent and increasingly radical efforts to defend the advantages that they enjoyed as slaveholding white men.
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