Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
[End Page vii] Hilary McDonald Beckles is principal and pro-vice-chancellor of the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados. He has researched and published extensively on the history of the Caribbean, including his recent book (with Verene Shepherd), Liberties Lost. The Indigenous Caribbean and Slave Systems (Cambridge, 2004). He is a member of the International Task Force for the U.N.E.S.C.O. Slave Route Project and is principal consultant for resource material in the schools programme. A keen cricketer, he has also written a two-volume history of The Development of West Indies Cricket (1999).
Caroline Bressey’s research focuses on the presence of black people in Victorian Britain, particularly London. The aim of her research is to recover the experiences of life, and understandings of race and racism, among the black population. She is currently based in the Department of Geography, University College London, as an Economic and Social Research Council research fellow, working on a research project examining the historical geography of Anti-Caste, an anti-racist journal first published in the 1880s. She is also secretary of the Black and Asian Studies Association (B.A.S.A.).
Christopher L. Brown is associate professor of history at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, where he teaches British history, British imperial history, and the comparative history of slavery and abolition. He is the author of Moral Capital. Foundations of British Abolitionism (Chapel Hill, NC, 2006), which received from the American Historical Association the 2006 James A. Rawley Prize for the best book in Atlantic History and the 2006 Morris D. Forkosch Prize for the best book in British History. He received his D. Phil. in Modern History from Balliol College, Oxford in 1994.
Kathy Chater is a freelance writer and genealogist. She is the author of books and articles about tracing family history and has a special interest in black people because of her possible black ancestry. She is working on a Ph.D. at Goldsmiths’ College, University of London, and as part of this has created the first large-scale database of black people in England and Wales during the period of the British slave trade.
Seymour Drescher is university professor of history and sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. He has held Fulbright, Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Humanities and Woodrow Wilson Center fellowships, and was founding secretary of the European Program at the Wilson Center. His publications include Econocide. British Slavery in the Era of Abolition (1977); Capitalism and Antislavery (1986), From Slavery to Freedom. Comparative Studies in the Rise and Fall of Atlantic Slavery (1999) and [End Page viii] The Mighty Experiment. Free Labor Versus Slavery in British Emancipation (2002). The last work was awarded the Frederick Douglass Book Prize in 2003.
Stephen Farrell is a senior research fellow at the History of Parliament in London, specializing in the early nineteenth-century house of commons. He completed his Cambridge Ph.D. thesis on the Rockingham whigs and the house of lords in 1993, and has since published articles in Parliamentary History. He is a member of the curatorial team for the parliamentary exhibition, for which he did extensive background research.
Mike Kaye has been working in the human rights’ field for more than 15 years and currently manages Anti-Slavery International’s communications and advocacy work. His previous jobs have included teaching in the University of Central America (Nicaragua); human rights field work in El Salvador, Guatemala and Mexico; policy officer for the Central America Human Rights Committees; and parliamentary officer for the Refugee Council. Recent publications include: Contemporary Forms of Slavery in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay (2006), 1807–2007: Over 200 years of Campaigning against Slavery (2005) and The Migration-Trafficking Nexus (2003).
Gelien Matthews pursued undergraduate studies at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad, where she also obtained a Diploma in Education. She read for her Ph.D. at the University of Hull. She has recently published her Ph.D. manuscript with Louisiana State University Press under the title Caribbean Slave Revolts and the British Abolitionist Movement. She is an adjunct lecturer in Caribbean studies at Caribbean Nazarene...
