‘Colonial Canada and the Caribbean’

To mark Black History Month, the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute hosted a webinar discussion on Canada’s colonial role in the Caribbean, past and present, from Canadian trade relations with the slave plantation economy to gunboat diplomacy and Canadian banking power in the late 1800s. This event featured discussion with four people, two of which are BAP Haiti/Americas Team members: Peter James Hudson, author of “Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean,” and Clark Atlanta University professor Tamanisha J. John.

Host: Canadian Foreign Policy Institute

Moderator: Bianca Mugyenyi