Manuel Barcia (born 1972,

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, in the United Kingdom. Barcia is a scholar on the field of Atlantic and Slavery Studies. He has published extensively on the subjects of

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, slave rebellion and on the transfers of

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n warfare knowledge to the Americas, with an emphasis on nineteenth-century Brazil, and Cuba. He has written

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articles for

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''. He is also an editor of ''Atlantic Studies: Global Currents'' (Routledge), 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

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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. It was announced on 13 February 2025 that Prof Barcia will become the University of Bath’s Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Global), following approval by Council with the support of Senate. He will start in his new role on 1 May 2025.

Selected works

*''The Yellow Demon of Fever: Fighting Disease in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade'' (New Haven:

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, 2020). *''Wage-Earning Slaves: Coartación in Nineteenth-Century Cuba'' o-authored with Claudia Varella(Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2020). *''West African Warfare in Bahia and Cuba: Soldier Slaves in the Atlantic World, 1807-1844'' (Oxford and New York:

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, 2014). *''The Great African Slave Revolt of 1825: Cuba and the Fight for Freedom in Matanzas'' (Baton Rouge:

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, 2012). *''Seeds of Insurrection: Domination and Slave Resistance on Cuban Plantations'' (Baton Rouge:

, 2008).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Barcia, Manuel Academics of the University of Leeds Historians of slavery 21st-century Cuban historians 1972 births Living people British people of Cuban descent