In partnership with the Wilberforce Institute, the lecture will begin at 4.30pm, directly after the Museum closes, and all will take place in Oriel Chambers, 27 High Street, Hull, HU1 1N.
We begin our public lecture programme, as usual, with the Alderman Sydney Smith Annual Lecture, and we are delighted that this year it will be given by Dr Heather Cateau on Wednesday 16 October. Dr Cateau, who teaches at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago, specialises in the study of plantation systems and in comparative systems of enslavement. The title of her talk is ‘“The New Negro Business”: The Enslavement System in the Caribbean in the Age of Revolution’.
Dr Cateau has held fellowships at the University of Iowa (2004-2005), Cambridge University (1999-2000), and most recently the University of St Andrews (2023-2024). Her books include Capitalism and Slavery Fifty Years Later (2000) with Selwyn Carrington; History of the Caribbean in the Atlantic World (2005) with John Campbell, and Beyond Tradition:
Reinterpreting the Caribbean Historical Experience (2006) with Rita Pemberton. She has also been a member of the Board of the National Museum and Art Gallery of Trinidad and Tobago.
