Dear all,
Please pass this on to anyone who might be interested.
Many thanks,
David Lambert
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Conference on ‘Armed people of African descent: Africa and the Americas, 1750-1900’ at the University of Warwick, 12-13 May 2017
To register and for further information, go to www.warwick.ac.uk/asuaconf<http://www.warwick.ac.uk/asuaconf>
This conference is concerned with the use of armed men of African descent by the European empires and American states of the Atlantic world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This encompasses both those deliberately armed and those who had taken up arms, perhaps to liberate themselves, and later came to an accommodation with the regime, as well as short-term enrolments and permanent military establishments. The conference relates to a four-year AHRC-funded project, ‘Africa’s Sons Under Arms: Race, Military Bodies and the British West India Regiments in the Atlantic World, 1795-1914', which focuses on military units raised by the British, initially as enslaved people, that served in the Caribbean and West Africa. A primary aim of the conference is to contextualise the Regiments in relation to similar formations and policies elsewhere. In so doing, our hope is that papers will build on and go beyond work on armed slaves, notably Brown and Morgan, Arming Slaves (2008), to think more broadly about the significance and impact of deploying armed men of African descent in a period when most were imperial subjects and generally denigrated within Euro-American discourse.
The conference is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and organised by Professor David Lambert ([log in to unmask]) and Professor Tim Lockley ([log in to unmask]).
Conference website: www.warwick.ac.uk/asuaconf<http://www.warwick.ac.uk/asuaconf>
Keep up-to-date about the wider ‘Africa’s Sons Under Arms’ project in the following ways:
Twitter: @AfricasSons
Blog: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/asua/
Project website: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/research/projects/asua
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Professor David Lambert
Professor of History
Director of the Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies
Department of History, University of Warwick
Twitter: @DrDRLambert
Web-site: www.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/cas/staff/lambert<http://www.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/cas/staff/lambert>
CURRENT PROJECT: Principal Investigator on AHRC-funded 'Africa’s Sons Under Arms: Race, Military Bodies and the British West India Regiment in the Atlantic World, 1795-1914', http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/research/projects/asua/
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