A SWARM OF PEOPLE:
The Barbadian Diaspora and the Expansion of the English Atlantic. Lecture by Justin Roberts, Assoc. Prof. of History Dalhousie University.
Location
The Wren Room, Sanborn House
Sponsored by
History Department
Audience
Public
The English Caribbean colony of Barbados was at the center of the development oif slavery and intensive sugar production that established the plantation system. During the second half of the 17th century free and enslaved people from this small island spread out across the Atlantic world. Prof. Justin Roberts explores how their migration shaped the development of plantation capitalism and imperialism for generations to come.
Location
The Wren Room, Sanborn House
Sponsored by
History Department
Audience
Public
