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Call for papers Workshop ‘Reinterpreting the Caribbean age of revolutions’ – deadline abstracts 30 March 2026
Posthumus fellows Dr Ramona Négron and Dr Karwan Fatah-Black invite research paper proposals for the workshop ‘Reinterpreting the Caribbean age of revolutions: Slave revolts, their non-slave participants and proto-citizenship’, to be held on 23 October 2026 at the KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies in Leiden.
Historians have found that in the history of Atlantic slavery, the period from the 1770s to 1840s saw the most slave rebellions, and within that period, the 1790s are a moment when slave revolts peaked. This workshop aims to explore why so many of the leaders and participants in so-called slave revolts were not enslaved themselves. How sustainable is the framing of these uprisings as revolts for and by enslaved people? The organisers propose to reinterpret these events through the lens of the relationship between the state and subject populations.
Please note that this workshop will be in tandem with the Graduate Seminar ‘Early modern Caribbean and Atlantic slavery and emancipation’ on the preceding day, 22 October 2026.
Those who would like to present at this conference should send a 1-page abstract ultimately 30 March 2026 by e-mail to Ramona Négron.
