Brycchan Carey
Encyclopedia
Brycchan Carey is a British academic and author specializing in the cultural history of slavery
and abolition
. He was educated at Goldsmiths' College, University of London and Queen Mary, University of London
, where he completed a doctorate called "The Rhetoric of Sensibility: Argument, Sentiment, and Slavery in the Late Eighteenth Century". He is currently Reader in English Literature at Kingston University
.
Carey has authored and edited several books and many articles on slavery and abolition, including a monograph British Abolitionism and the Rhetoric of Sensibility: Writing, Sentiment, and Slavery, 1760-1807 (2005). He also makes academic research on slavery and abolition available to a broad public audience through a website first created in the 1990s. This is noted for its information on Olaudah Equiano
and Ignatius Sancho
and also offers biographies of many British abolitionists, full texts of eighteenth and nineteenth-century antislavery poems, and information and literary resources for several places including Cornwall
and Gamlingay
, Cambridgeshire
.
According to his website, his latest book “From Peace to Freedom: Quaker Rhetoric and the Birth of American Antislavery, 1658-1761, about the development of Quaker antislavery thought in the British American colonies, will be published by Yale University Press in 2012”. He is currently the treasurer of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
.
(Edited with Peter Kitson
)
Slavery
Slavery is a system under which people are treated as property to be bought and sold, and are forced to work. Slaves can be held against their will from the time of their capture, purchase or birth, and deprived of the right to leave, to refuse to work, or to demand compensation...
and abolition
Abolition
Abolish means to put an end to something or to stop something.Abolition may refer to:*Abolitionism *Abolition of death penalty *Abolition of monarchy*Prison abolition movement...
. He was educated at Goldsmiths' College, University of London and Queen Mary, University of London
Queen Mary, University of London
Queen Mary, University of London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London...
, where he completed a doctorate called "The Rhetoric of Sensibility: Argument, Sentiment, and Slavery in the Late Eighteenth Century". He is currently Reader in English Literature at Kingston University
Kingston University
Kingston University is a public research university located in Kingston upon Thames, southwest London, United Kingdom. It was originally founded in 1899 as Kingston Technical Institute, a polytechnic, and became a university in 1992....
.
Carey has authored and edited several books and many articles on slavery and abolition, including a monograph British Abolitionism and the Rhetoric of Sensibility: Writing, Sentiment, and Slavery, 1760-1807 (2005). He also makes academic research on slavery and abolition available to a broad public audience through a website first created in the 1990s. This is noted for its information on Olaudah Equiano
Olaudah Equiano
Olaudah Equiano also known as Gustavus Vassa, was a prominent African involved in the British movement towards the abolition of the slave trade. His autobiography depicted the horrors of slavery and helped influence British lawmakers to abolish the slave trade through the Slave Trade Act of 1807...
and Ignatius Sancho
Ignatius Sancho
Ignatius Sancho was a composer, actor, and writer. He is the first known Black Briton to vote in a British election. He gained fame in his time as "the extraordinary Negro", and to 18th century British abolitionists he became a symbol of the humanity of Africans and immorality of the slave trade...
and also offers biographies of many British abolitionists, full texts of eighteenth and nineteenth-century antislavery poems, and information and literary resources for several places including Cornwall
Cornwall
Cornwall is a unitary authority and ceremonial county of England, within the United Kingdom. It is bordered to the north and west by the Celtic Sea, to the south by the English Channel, and to the east by the county of Devon, over the River Tamar. Cornwall has a population of , and covers an area of...
and Gamlingay
Gamlingay
Gamlingay is a village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire, England, near the border with Bedfordshire, and the traditional county of Huntingdonshire...
, Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire is a county in England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the northeast, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the west...
.
According to his website, his latest book “From Peace to Freedom: Quaker Rhetoric and the Birth of American Antislavery, 1658-1761, about the development of Quaker antislavery thought in the British American colonies, will be published by Yale University Press in 2012”. He is currently the treasurer of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
The British Society for Eighteenth-century Studies is an interdisciplinary scholarly society based in the United Kingdom which promotes the study of all aspects of 18th-century cultural history...
.
Publications
(Edited with Markman Ellis and Sara Salih)(Edited with Peter Kitson
Peter Kitson
Peter J. Kitson is a British academic and author specializing in the literary history of the Romantic era. He is currently Professor of English Literature at the University of Dundee. His doctoral thesis was on 'The Seventeenth-century Influence on the Early Religious and Political Thought of S. T....
)