The Royal Society and Slavery in Jamaica, 1660-1713

该项目将以牙买加为例，探讨皇家学会的自然知识生产与奴隶社会的建立之间的联系。该项目将由剑桥大学的Nuala Zahedieh和皇家学会的Keith摩尔共同监督。博士将调查英国国家及其机构在促进其海外领土使用奴役劳动力的作用，通过检查由皇家学会及其自然哲学家在早期英语牙买加的发展中发挥的作用。其主要目的是加强对复辟帝国政策的理解，以奴役为中心，塑造了新的自然和医学知识的生产，以及科学如何反过来提高了英国帝国企业的盈利能力。该协会的relationshipwith牙买加，在十八世纪最有价值的英国殖民地，是很少探索，并通过限制这一研究科学和奴隶制，其现场一个可管理的，但高度原创的学生项目应该随之而来。这将为未来的皇家学会和科学博物馆活动提供背景和信息，并及时给予日益提高的公众意识，即对英国历史进行更广泛的评估已经逾期。

The project will use the case of Jamaica to explore links between the Royal Society's production of natural knowledgeand the creation of a slave society. The project will be jointly supervised by Nuala Zahedieh, University of Cambridge andKeith Moore, the Royal Society. The PhD will investigate the role of the British state and its institutions in promoting theuse of enslaved labour in its overseas territories through an examination of the part played by the Royal Society and itsnatural philosophers in the development of early English Jamaica. The prime aim is to strengthen understanding of howRestoration imperial policy, with enslavement at its centre, shaped the production of new natural and medical knowledgeand how, in turn, science might have enhanced the profitability of Britain's imperial enterprise. The Society's relationshipwith Jamaica, the most valuable British colony in the eighteenth century, is little explored and by limiting this study ofscience and slavery to its locale a manageable but highly original student project should ensue. This will give context to,and inform, future Royal Society and Science Museum activity and is timely given rising public consciousness that abroader assessment of British history is overdue.