Claudius Fergus
Author and speaker
Claudius Fergus is a retired Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at UWI’s St Augustine Campus, who specialises in the abolition of British colonial slavery and its transatlantic slave trade. His major work on the subject is Revolutionary Emancipation: Slavery and Abolitionism in the British West Indies (2013). His latest book, Against Toleration: Britain's Persecution of the Spiritual Baptists, is published in 2024.
Discussion: the History We Need
The late historians Brinsley Samaroo and Gérard Besson had different backgrounds and approaches to their research, but shared a passion for documenting and narrating T&T’s past, always with an eye on the present. What are their legacies for today’s writers of history, whether scholarly or literary, academic or popular? Historians and writers Bridget Brereton, Claudius Fergus and Jerome Teelucksingh tackle these questions in conversation with Judy RaymondThe late historians Brinsley Samaroo and Gérard Besson had different backgrounds and approaches to their research, but shared a passion for documenting and narrating T&T’s past, always with an eye on the present. What are their legacies for today’s writers of history, whether scholarly or literary, academic or popular? Historians and writers Bridget Brereton, Claudius Fergus and Jerome Teelucksingh tackle these questions in conversation with Judy Raymond