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Henrice Altink

Henrice Altink is a Senior Lecturer in Modern History, and has written extensively about gender in Jamaica during slavery and the post-emancipation period.

“My more recent work focuses on racial discrimination in 20th century Jamaica and the control of tuberculosis in the Anglophone Caribbean. I became a Caribbean historian not so I could combine my research with trips to the beach, but because of my interest in racial inequality.

“In recent years there has been a great increase in digitised Caribbean resources, which has opened up many more possibilities for research and teaching. Students can now get access to hundreds of documents, photographs and even films with the click of a button. In my workshop, you will use some of these online depositories to examine key features of Caribbean slavery: the sugar plantation, the physical abuse of slaves, and slave resistance.”