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Brycchan Carey

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". 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 (2012) and 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 Cambridgeshire.Carey was a founder and the first president of The Literary London Society. He is currently treasurer of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and the deputy chair of the UK and Ireland branch of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment. He lives in Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire, where he is active in the local environmental movement.