After 1776: Settlers, Revolution, and Citizenship in the Atlantic Republics

This two-day workshop explores how the American Revolution reverberated in the emergence, expansion, and contradictions of settler republics across the Atlantic World. We take the 250th anniversary of 1776 as a point of departure and examine how the rise of settler republics – polities shaped by diverse populations asserting republican sovereignty through migration, land acquisition, and displacement – in North America, the Caribbean, Latin America, and Southern Africa produced new – and often deeply conflicted – forms of political community.

This event forms part of the wider collaborative project to bring together scholars working on the entangled histories of migration, race, citizenship, and settler republicanism across the Atlantic World in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The UCL workshop will be the first major gathering for this network and will support the development of an edited volume on these themes.