User:John M Weiss

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> John Weiss trained as an architect and planner, was an educator in the design field for thirty years and continues as a designer and craftsman. > > Historical studies since 1993 include the Black refugees of the War of 1812, the Corps of Colonial Marines 1814-16 and related aspects of Trinidad history, and British legislation on the Slave Trade, 1805-11. > > Publications (as John McNish Weiss): > ‘The Corps of Colonial Marines 1814-16: a summary’, Immigrants and Minorities, 15/1, April 1996; > ‘The Merikens: Free Black American Settlers in Trinidad 1815-16’, London, 2002; > a book in preparation on the Corps of Colonial Marines, their recruitment, organisation, service, disbandment and settlement in Trinidad. > > Conference papers (as John McNish Weiss) include: > ‘Black Hopes and White Fears in the War of 1812’, for conference of Colloquium for African American Research, ‘Black Liberation in the Americas’, Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet, March 1999; > ‘The Florida Negroes and the Admirals: Forbes v. Cochrane & Cockburn 1824 revisited’, for annual conference of British Association for American Studies, University of Glasgow, March 1999; > ‘Origins of the Merikens, African American settlers of Trinidad’s Company Villages’, University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago, January 2001; > ‘The Company Villages of Trinidad: Free Black American smallholders in a British world of plantation slavery’, for conference ‘Land Ownership and Slavery in the Caribbean’, University of the West of England, Bristol, March 2003; > ‘The Great Escape: the four thousand Black Americans who took their freedom in the War of 1812’, keynote paper for conference ‘The African Diaspora in the Americas: Current Research’, University of Ohio, Athens, USA, April 2003; > ‘Against Their Old Masters: Britain’s Corps of Colonial Marines’, opening paper for the Eighth National War of 1812 Symposium, Baltimore, 2004; > ‘Sir Alexander Cochrane’s Trinidad Apprentices: an early application of the Slave Trade Act’, for UK Society for Caribbean Studies, London Metropolitan University, July 2007; > ‘Apprenticeship in the 1807 Slave Trade Act: a novelty and its development’ for conference ‘Free at Last!’, Centre for Caribbean Studies, Warwick University, UK, July 2007; > ‘Sir Alexander Cochrane’s first Corps of Colonial Marines: Marie-Galante 1808’, US Naval Academy, Naval History Symposium, Annapolis, September 2007; > ‘Taking their freedom by way of the Royal Navy in the War of 1812’, 5th International Congress of Maritime History, Greenwich Maritime Institute, June 2008. > > website: www.mcnishandweiss.co.uk/JWindex.html >