Slavery in British Guiana in the Age of Abolition, 1804-1834

在废除奴隶贸易之后，英属圭亚那成为大英帝国最重要的奴隶殖民地。它的历史和奴隶的经历是这个项目的重点，奴隶占人口的大多数，丰富的档案资源将被用来让奴隶们直接讲述他们的经历。该项目有望阐明奴隶制后期一个特别有利可图但残酷的奴隶制社会中奴隶制和奴隶反抗的特征。它的目的是探索19世纪早期大英帝国可能存在的其他殖民形式，加深我们对种植园社会中奴隶管理的理解，并为种族和奴隶制的历史分析做出贡献。

British Guiana became the most important slave colony in the British Empire following the abolition of the slave trade. Its history and the experience of the slaves who made up the majority of its population is the focus of this project, designed so that rich archival sources will be used to enable slaves to speak directly about their experience. This project is expected to illuminate the character of slavery and slave resistance in an especially profitable but harsh slave society in a late period of slavery. It is intended to explore the alternative kinds of colonisation that were possible in the early nineteenth-century British Empire, to deepen our understanding of slave management in plantation societies and to contribute to the historical analysis of race and slavery.