Tag: Caribbean History

• Medicine as Autonomy: An Analysis of Enslaved Africans in Seventeenth Century Barbados and Jamaica 

  

  Between the years 1440 and 1720, two million enslaved Africans were forcefully shipped to the Americas. During this time the practice of medicine played a critical role in the survival and wellbeing of these slaves, but most importantly, provided them with agency. Nadja Dixon examines this medical expertise.

  Retrospect Journal

  01/04/2024

  Academic

  Atlantic Slavery, Caribbean History, Early Modern History, Medical History, Slavery

• Editing the Jamaica Reader: A Conversation with Professor Diana Paton and Professor Matthew Smith

  

  Professor Diana Paton and Professor Matthew Smith sit down with Retrospect’s EIC, Jamie Gemmell, to discuss their new volume: The Jamaica Reader: History, Culture, Politics.

  Retrospect Journal

  06/06/2021

  Academic, Interviews

  Atlantic Slavery, Caribbean History, Eighteenth Century, History, Interview, Jamaica, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century