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PhD History University of Havana
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According to Wikipedia, Manuel Barcia 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 slave resistance, slave rebellion and on the transfers of West African warfare knowledge to the Americas, with an emphasis on nineteenth-century Brazil, and Cuba. He has written op-ed articles for Al Jazeera English, The Independent, The Washington Spectator, The Washington Post. and The Huffington Post. He is also an editor of Atlantic Studies: Global Currents , a journal of Atlantic history and cultural studies. Barcia is one of a group of scholars who have been engaged in ongoing debates about the legacies of empires worldwide. More recently he has also participated in numerous discussions about universities, their past links to slavery, and the need for reparations. 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. 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.

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Manuel Barcia's Published Works

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West African Warfare in Bahia and Cuba: Soldier Slaves in the Atlantic World, 1807-1844 (2014) (33)
The Great African Slave Revolt of 1825: Cuba and the Fight for Freedom in Matanzas (2012) (19)
A Colony of Citizens: Revolution & Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804. LAURENT DUBOIS, Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2004. (2014) (18)
‘Locking horns with the Northern Empire’: anti-American imperialism at the Tricontinental Conference of 1966 in Havana (2009) (16)
A Proslavery Foreign Policy: Haitian-American Relations during the Early Republic (2005) (13)
Seeds of Insurrection: Domination and Resistance on Western Cuban Plantations, 1808-1848 (2008) (9)
Freedom’s mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the age of revolution (2016) (9)
Innovation and entrepreneurship as strategies for success among Cuban-based firms in the late years of the transatlantic slave trade (2018) (8)
‘Fully Capable of Any Iniquity’: The Atlantic Human Trafficking Network of the Zangroniz Family (2016) (8)
FIGHTING WITH THE ENEMY'S WEAPONS (2006) (8)
Revolts among Enslaved Africans in Nineteenth-Century Cuba: A New Look to an Old Problem (2005) (5)
West African Warfare in Bahia and Cuba (2014) (5)
The Yellow Demon of Fever (2020) (5)
Afro-Cuban Diasporas in the Atlantic World (2012) (3)
Soldier Slaves in the Atlantic World (2014) (3)
“To Kill all Whites”: The Ethics of African Warfare in Bahia and Cuba, 1807–1844 (2017) (3)
West African Islam in Colonial Cuba (2014) (2)
Into the future: A historiographical overview of Atlantic History in the twenty first century (2021) (2)
“An Islamic Atlantic Revolution:” Dan Fodio’s Jihād and Slave Rebellion in Bahia and Cuba, 1804-1844 (2013) (1)
Powerful Subjects: The Duplicity of Slave Owners in Nineteenth-Century Cuba (2015) (1)
‘Fully Capable of any Iniquity’: The Zangroniz Family’s Atlantic Human Trafficking Network (2016) (1)
‘Weapons from their land’: arming strategies and practices among West African-born soldiers in early nineteenth-century Bahia and Cuba (2018) (1)
Wage-Earning Slaves (2020) (1)
David Patrick Geggus and Norman Fiering (eds), The World of the Haitian Revolution (2011) (1)
White Cannibalism in the Illegal Slave Trade (2021) (0)
Charlotte A. Cosner. The Golden Leaf: How Tobacco Shaped Cuba and the Atlantic World. (2016) (0)
A Shared Struggle (2020) (0)
Shade-Grown Slavery: The Lives of Slaves on Coffee Plantations in Cuba by William C. Van Norman Jr. (review) (2015) (0)
The Promised Freedom (2020) (0)
‘New Negroes from Africa’: Slave Trade Abolition and the Free African Settlement in the Nineteenth‐century Caribbean ‐ by Adderley, Rosanne M. (2009) (0)
Between Glory and Decay (2014) (0)
Bringing Sugar Workers to Center Stage in Cuba History. A Review of Gillian McGillivray's Blazing Cane: Sugar Communities, Class, and State Formation in Cuba, 1868-1959 (Durham, NC and London: Duke UP, 2009) (2011) (0)
Slaves and Labor Pools (2020) (0)
The Hidden Face of Urban Slavery (2020) (0)
Comment From Revolution to Recognition: Haiti’s Place in the Post-1804 Atlantic World (2020) (0)
“A Beautiful Spot for a Grave” (2020) (0)
A curse upon the nation: race, freedom, and extermination in America and the Atlantic World (2019) (0)
Reseña de "No More, No More: Slavery and Cultural Resistance in Havana and New Orleans" de Daniel E. Walker (2007) (0)
The War against the Pirates: British and American Suppression of Caribbean Piracy in the Early Nineteenth Century, by Barry Clough & Charles Borras (2019) (0)
‘The Breath of Destruction’ (2023) (0)
Introduction (2020) (0)
Between Home and the Sea (2014) (0)
The Blood of Thousands (2020) (0)
LA TE S LAVERy A ND E MANCIPATION IN T HE g REATER C A RIBBEAN (2013) (0)
Between Bozal and Ladino in Bahia and Cuba (2014) (0)
New approaches to the slave trade, slavery, abolition and emancipation across the Atlantic and Indian Oceans (2020) (0)
Reseña de "The Virgin, the King, and the Royal Slaves of El Cobre: Negotiating Freedom in Colonial Cuba,1670-1780" de María Elena Díaz (2005) (0)
The Path to Abolition (2020) (0)
Freeing Oneself (2020) (0)
Conclusion (2020) (0)
An Institution for the Advancement of Slaves into Freedmen? (2020) (0)
Cruising for Slaves and Boating up Rivers (2020) (0)
Breaking the Chains, Forging the Nation: The Afro-Cuban Fight for Freedom and Equality, 1812-1912 (2019) (0)
“Such an Asylum of Wretchedness” (2020) (0)
Slavery in Brazil - by Klein, Herbert S. and Vidal Luna, Francisco (2011) (0)
Eric Williams and the Making of the Modern Caribbean. COLIN A. PALMER, Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2006. (2014) (0)
White Cannibalism in the Illegal Slave Trade The Peculiar Case of the Portuguese Schooner in 1837 (2021) (0)
Introduction (2020) (0)
AFRICANS IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD (2017) (0)
“Roaming Coartados” (2020) (0)
Cuba in and After 2016: Some Initial Reflections (2017) (0)
Africana, Slavery, and Diaspora Studies (2015) (0)
Closing Remarks (2020) (0)
Conceiving Freedom: Women of Color, Gender, and the Abolition of Slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro by Camillia Cowling (review) (2015) (0)
From Africa to Brazil: Culture, Identity, and an Atlantic Slave Trade, 1600–1830 - by Hawthorne, Walter (2012) (0)
New Approaches to the Comparative Abolition in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans (2023) (0)
‘Going back home’: slave suicide in nineteenth century Cuba (2017) (0)
From the Editors (2009) (0)

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