Manuel Barcia
Manuel Barcia (born 1972, Havana) is Chair of Global History at the University of Leeds, in the United Kingdom.
Barcia is a scholar on the field of Atlantic and Slavery Studies. He has published extensively on the subjects of
The Huffington Post.[5] He is also an editor of Atlantic Studies: Global Currents (Routledge), a journal of Atlantic history and cultural studies.[6] Barcia is one of a group of scholars who have been engaged in ongoing debates about the legacies of empires worldwide.[7] More recently he has also participated in numerous discussions about universities, their past links to slavery, and the need for reparations.[8][9] In 2014 he was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize in History, given every year to researchers whose work "has already attracted international recognition and whose future career is exceptionally promising". More recently he was a juror for the 2019 Frederick Douglass Book Prize.[10] In 2021 his book The Yellow Demon of Fever: Fighting Disease in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade, won the Paul E. Lovejoy Prize awarded annually by the Journal of Global Slavery to the foremost major scholarly work in the field of global slavery.[11]
Selected works
- The Yellow Demon of Fever: Fighting Disease in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade (New Haven: ISBN 9780300215854
- Wage-Earning Slaves: Coartación in Nineteenth-Century Cuba [Co-authored with Claudia Varella] (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2020). ISBN 9781683401650
- West African Warfare in Bahia and Cuba: Soldier Slaves in the Atlantic World, 1807-1844 (Oxford and New York: ISBN 9780198719038
- The Great African Slave Revolt of 1825: Cuba and the Fight for Freedom in Matanzas (Baton Rouge: ISBN 9780807143322
- Seeds of Insurrection: Domination and Slave Resistance on Cuban Plantations (Baton Rouge: ISBN 9780807133651
References
- ^ "Manuel Barcia". Al Jazeera English.
- ^ "Manuel Barcia". The Independent.
- ^ "Manuel Barcia Archives - Washington Spectator". Washington Spectator.
- ^ "Manuel Barcia". The Washington Post.
- ^ "Manuel Barcia". The Huffington Post.
- ^ "Atlantic Studies: Global Currents". Taylor & Francis.
- ^ "Manuel Barcia: Hay familias de la nobleza española que no abren sus archivos porque su dinero viene del tráfico de esclavos". 14 April 2019.
- ^ "Slavery and the University: Open Forum". 31 October 2019.
- ^ "Cambridge University Is Investigating Its Links To Slavery - What Exactly Does That Mean?". 30 April 2019.
- ^ "Kentucky professor wins Frederick Douglass Book Prize". 21 November 2019.
- ^ "Paul e. Lovejoy Prize".
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