Mr Philip Abraham has recently submitted his Ph.D. thesis on religious politics and planter society in late seventeenth-century Barbados to King's College London, where he was supervised by Prof. Richard Drayton. He has taught courses on early modern Britain at King's College London, and the Atlantic slave trade at Queen Mary, University of London. He is interested in the religious dynamics of the 'first British Empire' in the Americas, the relationship between Christianity and slavery, and Caribbean history, culture and politics since the fifteenth century.
Mr Abraham teaches the following course at undergraduate level:
HY118: Faith, Power and Revolution - Europe and the Wider World, c.1500-1800
March 2016
British Group of Early American Historians, PG/ECR Workshop, University of London, UK
“The Church of England, colonial Anglicanism, and settler society in later Stuart Barbados"
Feb 2016
Institute of Historical Research, University of London, UK
“The Church of England, colonial Anglicanism, and settler society in later Stuart Barbados”
April 2015
Eighth British Scholar Society Annual Conference, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA
“Rethinking the English Revolution on Barbados”
Jan 2015
Institute of Historical Research Early American Studies Workshop, University of London, UK
"Record Making, Record Keeping, and Colonial Society in Seventeenth-Century Barbados"
July 2014
Third Symposium of the Early Caribbean Society, Kingston University, UK
“Religion, race and citizenship in Restoration Barbados: the case of the Quakers”
April 2014
Social History Society Annual Conference, University of Northumbria, UK
“Towards a global history of religious tolerance: the English Caribbean in the 1660s”
April 2013
University of Kent, 8th Annual Southeast Hub of Historians, UK
“Cosmopolitanism at the colonial frontier: the case of English Surinam, c.1660-1667”