Story & Place Lecture: Catherine Hall

"Land, property, and the story of 18th century race-making: displacement and belonging between the Caribbean and Britain"
Lecture by Catherine Hall (Modern British Social and Cultural History, University College London)
Respondent: Jennifer Morgan (History, New York University)

September 24, 2025 - Part of the Story & Place event series 

Private property both in land and people has a history that links England, Ireland, and Jamaica in the 1700s. This talk explores those connections and reflects on the ways in which English colonizers and the Africans they enslaved created storied places of belonging for themselves on this tropical island.