Introducing the Forum on Catherine Hall’s <i>Lucky Valley</i>

This essay introduces a forum on Catherine Hall’s Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism (2024), situating the work in the context of racial capitalism and the history of empire in the study of slavery, gender, and family life in the British Caribbean and emphasizing Hall’s interdisciplinary engagement with Long’s life as a planter, a slaveholder, and the author of The History of Jamaica (1774).