Lecture by Jane Webster (Newcastle) - Materializing the Middle Passage

Rhode Island Hall, Room 108

Dr. Jane Webster is Senior Lecturer in Historical Archaeology and Head of Archaeology in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at Newcastle University. She is a historical archaeologist whose research focuses on colonial material culture, from the early Roman Empire to the eighteenth century. She works mainly in two fields: Romano-British iconography and the archaeology of slavery (looking at the latter in both in the Roman period and between 1660 and 1807). Webster is currently writing a book called "Material Culture of the Middle Passage," looking at the social world of slave ships making the Atlantic sea crossing that took slaves to the New World during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.