Join us on Wednesday 27 November at 4pm for a public talk by Professor Catherine Hall followed by a drinks reception. This event will take place in the Samuel Alexander Theatre and is co-hosted by the UoM History Department and Modern British Studies.
Racial capitalism has become a widely used term – pointing to the intimate connections between processes of racialization and of capitalist organization. This talk will focus on an C18 case study of the workings of racial capitalism across the Atlantic, drawing on the extraordinary account of it in Edward Long’s classic History of Jamaica.
Catherine Hall is Emerita Professor of History and Chair of the Centre of the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery at UCL. She has written extensively on the history of Britain, gender and empire including Family Fortunes (1987), co-authored with Leonore Davidoff, Civilising Subjects (2002) Macaulay and Son (2012) and, with others, Legacies of British Slave-ownership (2014). From 2009-16 she was principal investigator on the LBS project www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs. Her latest book is Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the history of racial capitalism (2024).
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