Personal statement

Richard Anderson is Strathclyde Chancellor's Fellow/Lythe Lecturer in Race, Ethnicity and Migration at the University of Strathclyde. He is a historian of Africa and the African Diaspora, with particular emphasis on British abolitionism and colonialism in West Africa and the Atlantic world. Richard is the author of African Narratives of Slavery and Abolition: testimonies from the nineteenth century (Bloomsbury, 2024), Abolition in Sierra Leone: Re-Building Lives and Identities in Nineteenth-Century West Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2020) and co-editor of Liberated Africans and the Abolition of the Slave Trade (Rochester University Press, 2020). His articles have appeared in the English Historical Review, Slavery & Abolition, History in Africa, African Economic History, and Northern Scotland. Before coming to the University of Strathclyde Richard was Lecturer in the History of Slavery at the University of Aberdeen and Lecturer in Colonial and Post-colonial History at the University of Exeter's Cornwall campus.