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Selected Publications


John Newton, Collective Shame, and the Repentant Imagination of British Abolitionism

Journal Article Eighteenth-Century Studies · June 2025 Abstract: This article argues for the significance of shame within British abolitionism. Close reading of the autobiographical writings of John Newton, an enslaver-turned-abolitionist and evangelical minister, reveals how changing id ... Full text Cite

“Died a small boy”: Re-Centering the Human in Geospatial Data from the Middle Passage

Journal Article Archipelagos · May 2023 “Remembering the Middle Passage” is a collective of scholars using digital humanities tools to represent, and possibly memorialize, enslaved Africans who died along the Middle Passage. Taking up Jessica Marie Johnson’s call for a “Black digital practice,” ... Link to item Cite