Sugar plantation in the British colony of Antigua, 1823. Picture credit: British Library
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The rise and fall of slavery in the Caribbean

Professor Jeremy Black on the reality of the slave economy created by the Caribbean’s European colonisers

In this episode 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 reality of the slave economy created by the Caribbean’s European colonisers as well as the processes that drove its expansion and ultimately its dismantlement.

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