In this edition of Black’s History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of A Brief History of the Caribbean talks to The Critic‘s deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about the Caribbean in the nineteenth century as it adapts to an economy no longer dependent upon slavery and responds to the growing regional influence of the United States of America.
Street scene, Kingston, Jamaica, c1880. Photo by The Print Collector via Getty Images
The Caribbean after slavery
Professor Jeremy Black on the Caribbean in the 19th century
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