“Fish fit for no other human consumption”: slavery, salt, cod and the Triangular Trade.
Julia Laite
The Triangle Trade: Newfoundland, Britain, and the Caribbean
Julia Laite is Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London. Born and raised in St. John’s and Trinity East, she earned a BA from Memorial University and a PhD from Cambridge. Her book The Disappearance of Lydia Harvey won the Golden Dagger for Non-Fiction from the British Crime Writer’s Association.
Julia explores the centuries-long Triangle Trade connecting Britain, Newfoundland, and the Caribbean. She reveals how this profit-generating imperial system entangled enslaved workers on Caribbean plantations with indentured Newfoundland fisherfolk, examining the profound human and environmental legacies that continue today.
