S3 E6 The Culinary Creativity of the Enslaved

In Episode 6 I chat with Dr Peggy Brunache, Lecturer in Public History and Archaeology as well as the founding Director of the Beniba Centre for Slavery Studies at the University of Glasgow, to discover how the culinary creativity of the enslaved people served as a form of resistance.

Useful Links

You can find Peggy on Instagram @negroshire

Beniba Centre for Slavery Studies

Peggy is also one of the women featured the 100 Black Women Who Have Made A Mark exhibition at the Leicester Gallery at de Montfort University from 1 October 2024 – 4 January 2025.

Britain's Forgotten Slave Owners on BBC iPlayer. David Olusoga shines a light on Britain's dark past - how it was built on the profits of slavery. The acclaimed series that inspired frank conversations on our colonial history.

Suggested Reading

Bayley, F.W.N. (1830). Four Years’ Residence in the West Indies. London: William Kidd.

Coleridge, Henry Nelson (1825) Six Months in the West Indies. London: John Murray Albermarle Street.

Hearn, Lafcadio (1903) Two years in the French West Indies (Martinique)

Moreton, J.B. (1793). West India Customs and Manners: containing Strictures on the Soil, Cultivation, Produce, Trade, Officers, and Inhabitants; with The Method of Establishing and Conducting a Sugar Plantation. To Which is Added The Practice of Training New Slaves. London: J. Parsons; W. Richardson; H. Gardner; and J. Walter.

Schaw, Janet. (1921) Journal of a Lady of Quality; Being the Narrative of a Journey from Scotland to the West Indies, North Carolina, and Portugal, in the Years 1774 to 1776. Edited by Evangeline Walker Andrews, in Collaboration with Charles McLean Andrews, Farnam Professor of American History in Yale University NEW HAVEN: Yale University Press, LONDON: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press.

Tryon, Thomas (1684) Friendly advice to the gentlemen-planters... Indies.

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A huge thank you to Thomas Ntinas of The Delicious Legacy for doing the sound mixing on this season of the podcast.