Race and Politics in the Greater Caribbean during the Revolutionary Era.
Part of the Black Histories and Futures lecture series.
The talk considers the ways in which some sections of Greater Caribbean colonial societies were excluded from the political realm and the extent to which these groups of people were nonetheless able to engage with government. It explores parts of the population that stood outside the imperial context and existed in self-governed communities such as maroons and the nature of interactions between these communities and colonial governments.
In summary, the talk focusses on how enslaved Africans, maroons and free people of colour participated in politics in the Greater Caribbean during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Dr Dexnell Peters is currently the Bennett Boskey Fellow in Atlantic History at Exeter College, University of Oxford.
