Tag: Slavery

Labour History Review

Book reviews in Labour History Review volume 89 (2024), Issue 3

The books listed below are reviewed in Labour History Review (2024), 89, (3). Read more. Siân Davies reviews Randy M. Browne, The Driver’s Story: Labor and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024, pp. 224, h/b, £36, ISBN 978 15128 25862 Andrew Frow-Jones reviews Vic Gatrell, Conspiracy on Cato Street: A Tale of Liberty and Revolution in Regency London, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, … Continue reading Book reviews in Labour History Review volume 89 (2024), Issue 3

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Events, Grants

Legacies of colonialism and enslavement: HistoryLab+ annual conference 2024

The organisers of this year’s HistoryLab+ conference report back from an event focused on human exploitation and its legacies. The day was supported by the Society for the Study of Labour History. This year’s HistoryLab+ conference took place at the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation (WISE), and focused on the histories of human exploitation and its legacies. The event took place … Continue reading Legacies of colonialism and enslavement: HistoryLab+ annual conference 2024

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Events, Grants

Conference: HistoryLab+ at the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation

Registration is now open and a final programme is available for the HistoryLab+ 2024 conference, taking place on 25-26 July 2024 at the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation at the University of Hull. Find out more and register. Speakers at panel sessions include Dr Chris Townsend on ‘The Economics of Antislavery Verse’, and Alexandra Dold on ‘Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander Novels: Representing … Continue reading Conference: HistoryLab+ at the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation

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Events, Grants

Undoing 2007; Preparing for 2038: Abolition, Birmingham and Commemoration

Billed as ‘a day-long, co-productive community conversation, about Abolition, Birmingham, and Commemoration’, and convened and chaired by Dr Nathaniel Adam Tobias Coleman, Undoing 2007; Preparing for 2038 will take place on Saturday 1 June at The Exchange, 3 Centenary Square, Birmingham B1 2DR. The event takes as its starting point the ‘deception’ of the abolition of the slave trade in 1807, and of ‘the state-sponsored jingoistic jamboree … Continue reading Undoing 2007; Preparing for 2038: Abolition, Birmingham and Commemoration

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Bursary reports, Research bursaries

Siân Davies (Edinburgh) on the Pennant family and the labour history of their estates in North Wales and Jamaica c1780-c1900

The Pennant family owned and managed sugar plantations in Jamaica, worked on by enslaved, indentured and later free labourers. From the 1780s onwards the family also ran Penrhyn Quarry in North Wales. The Penrhyn Quarry lockout from 1900-1903 is notorious in the area. I knew from a young age that members of the community still resented the Pennant name for their treatment of the quarrying … Continue reading Siân Davies (Edinburgh) on the Pennant family and the labour history of their estates in North Wales and Jamaica c1780-c1900

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Bursary reports, Research bursaries

Carin Peller Semmens (Sussex) on the legacies of slavery in North Louisiana’s Red River region

My doctoral work examines the ideological, political, economic and behavioural legacies of slavery in North Louisiana’s Red River region from the early entrenchment of slavery in the 1820s through the violent and charged 1870s and 1880s. It investigates the foundation and significance of white dominated power structures in the shaping of black and white relations. The rigid power dynamic established by slavery proved particularly resilient … Continue reading Carin Peller Semmens (Sussex) on the legacies of slavery in North Louisiana’s Red River region

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