Caribbean Studies Seminar Series

CLACS Caribbean Studies Seminar Series actively promotes intellectual engagement and knowledge exchange by providing scholars - including postgraduate students and early career researchers - with the opportunity to present their interdisciplinary, comparative and integrated research on the Caribbean.

Slavery and Big Business

Speaker: Steve Cushion (co-convenor of the Caribbean Seminar series, UCL Institute of the Americas)

We often hear it said that Britain profited from slavery. But this assumption of collective responsibility obscures the extremely unequal distribution of benefits that accrued to different sections of the population. Taking a class analysis, this presentation links the histories of capitalists and workers in Britain and the Caribbean, tracing the dynamics of profit-seeking and exploitation, resistance and solidarity, on both sides of the Atlantic. This will be a preview of Steve Cushion's forthcoming book Slavery in the British Empire and its Legacy for the Modern World to be published by Monthly Review in 2025.

Steve Cushion is a Senior Research Fellow at University College London (UCL), Institute of the Americas. He is a member of Caribbean Labour Solidarity (CLS), the Socialist History Society (SHS), the Society for Caribbean Studies (SCS) and the University and College Union (UCU).

All are welcome to attend this free seminar, which will be held online via Zoom at 16:00 GMT (UK time). You will need to register in advance to receive the online joining link. Please click on the Book Now button at the top of the page to register.