Manuel Barcia receives the Journal of Global Slavery’s Paul E. Lovejoy Prize

The GLC congratulates Manuel Barcia, whose book The Yellow Demon of Fever: Fighting Disease in the 19th-century Transatlantic Slave Trade (Yale University Press, 2020) received the Journal of Global Slavery’s Paul E. Lovejoy Prize for the best scholarly work in the field of slavery published in 2020.

The Journal of Global Slavery is pleased to announce this year’s Paul E. Lovejoy Prize for the best scholarly work in the field of slavery published in 2020 is awarded to Manuel Barcia (University of Leeds) for his excellent monograph The Yellow Demon of Fever: Fighting Disease in the 19th -century Transatlantic Slave Trade (Yale University Press, 2020).

In The Yellow Demons of Fever, Manuel Barcia not only investigates disease as an overlooked horror of the Atlantic slave trade during the age of abolition, but also makes a compelling argument about the scope of the medical practitioners, both European and African and African-descended peoples, that were deeply involved in its cure and containment. Among the other strengths of this book is Barcia’s ability to amass disparate sources across the circum-Atlantic to lucidly reconstruct and advance our understanding of the medical history of the Atlantic slave trade in ways that would inspire future scholars for generations to come.

Full announcement here: 
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