Speaker: William Pettigrew, King's College London
Commentators: Jennifer Morgan, NYU, and Christopher Brown, Columbia University
Introduction: Carl Wennerlind, Barnard College
Moderator: Adam Tooze, Columbia University
Since 2021, William Pettigrew has led a team of nine historians in a project to unearth every known investor in Britain’s transatlantic slave trade. Drawing on what is now known of these 13,000 individuals, he has written a new version of Britain’s history which transforms our understanding of who these traffickers were and reveals – for the first time – the impact they had on the nation’s development during this formative era.
Event cosponsored by the Office of the Provost, the Department of History, and the Department of Africana Studies at Barnard College, and by the European Institute, the Department of History, and the African American and African Diaspora Studies Department at Columbia University.