Prestigious British Academy Grant for David

Congratulations to Dr David Veevers, Lecturer in Early Modern History, on receiving a £10,000 research grant from the highly competitive British Academy Small Grants scheme. Dr Veevers will be visiting archives in the Antilles and USA with the aim of re-inserting the history of the indigenous peoples of the Caribbean into narratives on slavery and exploring their role as unfree labour in England’s colonial plantation economy. 

Commenting on the grant, Dr Veevers said, "The British Academy Small Grants award of £10,000 will go towards launching a new research project 'Indigenous Enslavement and the Beginnings of English Plantation Colonies in the Lesser Antilles, 1600 - 1676'. The project seeks to re-insert the Indigenous people of the Caribbean back into narratives of slavery and show that considerable numbers of them were used as unfree labour to drive England's growing colonial plantation economy in this period. The grant will fund research trips to valuable archives across the Caribbean and the United States, as well as allow for a visit to the earliest plantations on which the unhappy fate of Indigenous lives played out at the dawn of English colonialism."

We look forward to seeing his work develop.