Join the Centre for World Environmental History for presentation on Plantation Agriculture in Tobago: Development and Demise by Dr Rita Pemberton (University of the West Indies)!

Rita Pemberton's previous roles include former Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of History at UWI, St. Augustine, Deputy Dean of Student Affairs in the Faculty of Humanities and Education; Chief Examiner CSEC Caribbean History and past president of the Association of Caribbean History. She is the recipient of Bishop’s High School Outstanding Alumnae Award 2008, and her current research is on the history and development of Tobago. Her publications include:

“Captivity, Coffle and Convoy: Mental Health and the Response of Captive Africans During the Journey to the Caribbean” in Interrogating Injustices: Essays in Honour of Hilary McD. Beckles, Academic, Advocate, Administrator. Edited by Verene A, Shepherd, Henderson D. Carter and Ahmed N. Reid Jamaica: Ian Randle Publishers, 2023.

Joint author with Debbie Mc Collin, Gelien Matthews and Michael Toussaint, Historical Dictionary of Trinidad and Tobago, New York and London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2018

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Last updated: Wednesday, 20 March 2024