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Caribbean Studies Seminar Series | Soldiers of Uncertain Rank: The West India Regiments in British Imperial Culture

Online: 25 February 2025, 4:00PM – 5:30PM.

Speakers: David Lambert (Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies).

The West India Regiments were an anomalous presence in the British Army. Raised in the late eighteenth-century Caribbean in an act of military desperation, their rank-and-file were overwhelmingly men of African descent, initially enslaved. As such, the regiments held a unique but ambiguous place in the British Army and British Empire until their disbandment in 1927. Soldiers of Uncertain Rank (Cambridge University Press, 2024) brings together the approaches of cultural, imperial and military history in new and illuminating ways to show how the image of these regiments really mattered. This image shaped perceptions in the Caribbean societies in which they were raised and impacted on how they were deployed there and in Africa. By examining the visual and textual representation of these soldiers, this book uncovers a complex, under-explored and illuminating figure that sat at the intersection of nineteenth-century debates about race, slavery and freedom; savagery and civilisation; and military service, heroism and Britishness. […]

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REGARDS CNRS (13 de febrero de 2025). Caribbean Studies Seminar Series | Soldiers of Uncertain Rank: The West India Regiments in British Imperial Culture. Redial & Ceisal. Recuperado 17 de abril de 2025 de https://doi.org/10.58079/13bbu


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