Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP150104051

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP150104051

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

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

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2015

End Date: 31-12-2019

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $138,400.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Historical Studies | British History | Latin American History

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Understanding the Past of the Americas | Understanding Africa's Past |

Other Keywords

British History | Historical Studies | Latin American History | Understanding Africa's Past | Understanding the Past of the Americas

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