The Institute for the Study of the Americas and the Institute of Commonwealth Studies warmly invite you to the following seminar on Wednesday 8th October
Laurence Brown, Manchester University
“Routes to Freedom: Migration and the Construction of Emancipation in the Eastern Caribbean”
Venue: Menzies Room, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, 28 Russell Square
Time: 5pm The seminar will be followed by a wine reception.
Abstract and Biography below:
Migration was central to the constitution of post-emancipation society across the Eastern Caribbean, however its impact varied considerably between colonies and over time. Exploring the intersections and exchanges between disparate currents of internal migration, regional emigration and indentured immigration provides a new vision of the contested nature of these movements and the trans-national networks that shaped their development. From British Guiana to Martinique, from Puerto Rico to Trinidad, the routes to freedom that emerged in the 1830s and 1840s were the shifting products of regional relationships rather than over-determined by the internal forces celebrated in nationalist historiographies.
Laurence Brown is Lecturer in Migration History at the University of Manchester. After teaching at the University of the West Indies (Barbados), his research has focused on the comparative history of the Caribbean migration resulting in a series of publications on the interactions between British, French and Spanish colonies during the nineteenth century. He is also engaged in an AHRC-funded research project on the Caribbean diaspora in Manchester using GIS to map the networks, exchanges and events which have shaped immigrant identities in the city.
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