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Sean Hayward
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M.A. Candidate
British History

E-mail:
Phone: 613-533-2150
Fax: 613-533-6298

Education

McGill - B.A. (Honours) History


About

During my undergraduate degree I focused on nineteenth century British cultural history and early colonial settlements in Africa.

My undergraduate thesis examined the competing understandings of black loyalist identity at Freetown, Sierra Leone in the late eighteenth century. The founding of Freetown combined the aims of British abolitionists to provide an alternative to the slave trade, while bringing the area into greater contact with the shifting British Empire and the economy of the Atlantic world. I worked with variety of primary source material, from handwritten monographs, trading company records, to period newspapers. The essay received the departmental prize for outstanding essay in British history.

At Queen's, supervised by Dr. den Otter, I am expanding upon the subject of early colonial Sierra Leone with greater attention to its role within the broader abolitionist movement and the mythology of freed black men and women in evangelical and abolitionist literature.


Kingston, Ontario, Canada. K7L 3N6. 613.533.2000