Prof Catherine Hall, Dr Nick Draper, Dr Keith McClelland (University College London)
ESRC Research Group, Legacies of British Slave-ownership
17 November 2011
At 16:00 in Room 6.345 (Colchester Campus) and afterwards in the Sociology Common Room.
The complex debates triggered by Eric Williams’ Capitalism and Slavery remain central to the assessment of the role of slavery in the formation of Britain a century after Williams’ birth. This seminar draws on early findings of the Legacies of British Slave-ownership (LBS) project at UCL to highlight the extent to which the imprint of slavery continued to broaden in the nineteenth-century, beyond the period in which Williams himself had construed slavery as formative of metropolitan Britain. Read the rest of this entry »
Guy Standing
