Reckoning with Race in Early Modern London, 1655-1714

这个项目调查了早期现代伦敦人是如何在建立在种族主义奴役劳动制度基础上的新兴大英帝国之后生活的。正是在征服牙买加(1655)和汉诺威继承(1714)之间，帝国的代理人发展和部署了种族主义的思想和做法，使某些群体获得了财产。学者们还没有考虑这些做法是如何在英国部署的。这个项目聚焦于伦敦这个政府中心和帝国大都市，使用教区记录、视觉文化和审判证词来记录这段历史，揭示当代英国是如何通过种族锻造的。

This project investigates how early modern Londoners lived in the wake of an emerging British empire founded on racialised systems of enslaved labour. It was between the conquest of Jamaica (1655) and the Hanoverian Succession (1714), that agents of empire developed and deployed ideas and practices of racialisation that rendered certain groups of people property. Scholars have yet to reckon with how these practices were deployed within Britain. Focused on London, the centre of government and imperial metropolis, this project uses parish records, visual culture, and trial testimony to chart this history, revealing how contemporary Britain was forged through race.