Brycchan Carey

Who is Brycchan Carey?

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 Professor of English Literature at Kingston University.

Carey has authored and edited several books and many articles on slavery and abolition including From Peace to Freedom: Quaker Rhetoric and the Birth of American Antislavery, 1658-1761 and British Abolitionism and the Rhetoric of Sensibility: Writing, Sentiment, and Slavery, 1760-1807. 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 Cambridgeshire.

Carey is currently president of The Literary London Society and treasurer of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. He lives in Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire, where he is active in the local environmental movement.