Catherine Hall (Modern British Social and Cultural History, University College London) will present the lecture “Land, property, and the story of 18th century race-making: displacement and belonging between the Caribbean and Britain.” With Jennifer Morgan (History, New York University) responding. Part of the Story & Place event series.
Private property both in land and people has a history that links England, Ireland, and Jamaica in the 1700s. This talk explores those connections and reflects on the ways in which English colonizers and the Africans they enslaved created storied places of belonging for themselves on this tropical island.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Catherine Hall is Emerita Professor of History and Chair of the Centre of the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery at University College London, as well as a fellow of the British Academy. 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 Legacies of British Slavery project. Her latest book is Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism (2024).