Natalie Kalitsi is an Information Science and French major.
National Army Museum/Provided
The British military kept statistics on regiments posted all over the world, such as the 84th (York and Lancaster) Regiment of Foot, an England-based unit stationed in Jamaica in the 1860s; here the regiment band is shown in Jamaica in a 1868 photo.
Medical statistics compiled and published by the British military played an important role in introducing “race” as a categorical reality, Suman Seth argues.