| Brycchan Carey | |
|---|---|
| Born | 23 June 1967 England |
| Education | Goldsmiths' College, University of London Queen Mary, University of London |
| Occupation | Reader in English literature |
Brycchan Carey (born 23 June 1967) 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".[1] He is currently Reader in English Literature at Kingston University.[2]
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”.[3] He is currently president of the Literary London Society and treasurer of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.[4]
Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Britain and its Colonies, 1760-1838. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 2004. ISBN 1-4039-1647-0. (Edited with Markman Ellis and Sara Salih)
British Abolitionism and the Rhetoric of Sensibility: Writing, Sentiment, and Slavery, 1760-1807. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 2005. ISBN 1-4039-4626-4.
Slavery and the Cultures of Abolition: Essays Marking the British Abolition Act of 1807 (Essays and Studies in Romanticism Series, 2007). Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer. 2007. ISBN 1-8438-4120-7. (Edited with Peter Kitson)