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Brycchan Carey is professor of literature, culture, and history at Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne. He has published numerous books and articles on the cultural history of slavery and abolition.
“Carey’s razor-sharp key insight is that eighteenth-century abolitionism engaged as much with emerging environmental and life sciences as with . . . moral philosophy. . . . Meticulously argued.”—Monique Allewaert, William and Mary Quarterly “Offering a new environmental history of abolitionism, Carey[’s] . . . dialectical reading of these ‘narratives of nature’ spanning two centuries demonstrates how determining the nature of nature is inextricably entwined with the history of political and moral world-making.”—Nayanika Shome, British Society for Literature and Science Longlisted for The Society for the History of Natural History Prize, 2025 Shortlisted for the 2025 Early American Literature Book Prize “Bolstered by impressive primary and secondary research, Brycchan Carey argues compellingly that eighteenth-century abolitionists imitated contemporaneous naturalists to depict chattel slavery as an invasive species brought by Europeans to the Americas.”—Vincent Carretta, author of Phillis Wheatley Peters: Biography of a Genius in Bondage “Brycchan Carey’s skillful re‑examination of the primary literature of British slave trading and settlement in the Caribbean is persuasive and welcome. His forensic study forms a highly original environmental analysis both of humans and the natural world in the era of Atlantic slavery, exploration and settlement. In the process, it provides a totally new backdrop to the rise of late eighteenth-century abolitionist sensibility.”—James Walvin, University of York
