Research project

Research paper on the Jamaican planter class and politics of slavery, delivered to Annual Conference of the Association of Caribbean Historians

Lead researcher:

Professor Christer Petley
Research funder:

British Academy
Status:

Not active

Project overview

This was a paper drawing on research on the letters of Simon Taylor (1739-1813), a prominent Jamaican slaveholder, and his proslavery political outlook. It eventually evolved into material for the book White Fury: A Jamaican Planter and the Age of Revolution (OUP, 2018).

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Christer Petley

Professor of Atlantic History

Research interests

Atlantic History
Caribbean History
Slavery and Abolition

Connect with Christer

Email: c.petley@soton.ac.uk