Bronwen Everill
Biographic Data
| ID | 1168040 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bronwen Everill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bronwen |
| FAMILY NAME | Everill |
| SIGNATURE | EVERILL B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4048-376X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Abolition
Arguments for the abolition of the slave trade and enslaved labor emerged in tandem with Revolutionary calls for liberty. Looking at the diverse participation of men and women, Black and white, free and enslaved, Loyalist and Patriot, the chapter examines the practical implementation of abolitionist ideals. State versus federal approaches, gradualism, colonization, immediate emancipation, commercial abstention, slave trade abolition, war, and reb…
Abolition and Imperialism in Africa
The rights of man and the citizen were in conflict in West African abolitionism because the universalism of the rights of man was not enforceable without encroaching on the sovereignty of African states. This chapter will explore the development of ideas of rights in the engagements between West Africa and the abolitionists and imperialists who intervened there across the nineteenth century. The three sections explore the forms of civil, politica…
Eingegangene Bücher
Profiting from Slavery and Emancipation: Compensation, Capital, and Collateral in Nineteenth-Century Senegal
The relationship between capitalism and slavery has been contentious because, in the Atlantic economy, enslaved people functioned as commodities, as labor, and as assets. The transition away from the Atlantic slave-trading system across the nineteenth century affected the stakeholders in these economic functions differently. Compensated emancipation in Senegal provides an opportunity for thinking about the possibilities and limitations of compens…
For the services of shipwrights, coopers, and grumettas: Freetown's ship repair cluster in nineteenth-century Sierra Leone
This article looks at the development of Sierra Leone's ship repair cluster, particularly focusing on the period 1780 to 1860. It argues that several factors contributed to the colony's ability to develop a ship repair cluster. The first was the local environment, which provided both a safe harbor for ships and boats, and local materials that could be used on European and American ships. Secondly, the port's increasing commercial role and its uni…
Not Made by Slaves: Ethical Capitalism in the Age of Abolition
Ruma Chopra. Almost Home: Maroons between Slavery and Freedom in Jamaica, Nova Scotia, and Sierra Leone
In 1799, the governor and council of Sierra Leone reported to the Colonial Office that an estimated £5,450 would be required to provision the 560 banished Jamaican Maroon men, women, and children who would be sent to the colony after their unsuccessful resettlement in Nova Scotia. In accepting these settlers, the government of Sierra Leone was solving several of their problems at once: repairing a budget gap; increasing the population of the city…
History and Humanitarianism: A Conversation
There has been an undeniable interest in recent years in the history of humanitarianism.It is a field that has grown quickly and, as a field of inquiry, it incorporates a vast spectrum of subjects: from the history of anti-slavery movements in the eighteenth century, emergency relief in times of famine in the nineteenth, responses to refugee crises in the twentieth, through to longer-term development and poverty eradication programmes during and …
The Evolution of Economic Interventions and the Violence of International Accountability over the longue durée
British Humanitarianism and the Congo Reform Movement, 1896–1913, by Dean Pavlakis
This new account of the Congo Reform Association (CRA) is a welcome addition to the growing field of the history of humanitarianism. Dean Pavlakis presents a clear and comprehensive review of the CRA’s history as a movement, focused on its development, its strategies and an evaluation of its impact. Refreshingly, for this field of research, the book does not try to argue that this was a new or different kind of humanitarian organisation, but, in …
All the baubles that they needed”: “Industriousness” and Slavery in Saint-Louis and Gorée
All the baubles that they needed" 'Industriousness' and Slavery in Saint-Louis and Gore
The Italo-Abyssinian Crisis and the Shift from Slave to Refugee
Britain's role as the leading anti-slavery force throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth century defined humanitarian action and rhetoric with regard to Africa in this period. At some point in the twentieth century, however, the primary victim group – and focus of humanitarian action – in Africa came to be defined as refugees. This article argues that this was a result of the use of anti-slavery rhetoric in the Italian invasion of Ethiopia,…
Epilogue: 1861 And Beyond
In 1860, the election of Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, precipitated a series of secession conventions throughout the Southern states. When war broke out in April 1861, Britain did not immediately take a side in the struggle. The reluctance of Britain’s government to involve itself with the US Civil War was not matched by a reluctance to get involved with Liberia. After years of deriding the country and its leadership and its ability to s…
Americans in Africa
From the early nineteenth century, African American settlers began arriving in West Africa — first in Freetown, later on Sherbro Island, and finally along the coast of what is now Liberia. These settlers arrived to escape slavery and racial prejudice at home. But like other settlers before and after them, they did not entirely sever their ties to their home country or their friends and family left behind. And since their move to Africa was politi…
Slave Trade Interventionism
Eighteen thirty eight marked the beginning of a new period of anti-slavery colonization history for a number of reasons. First, the Birmingham branch of the anti-slavery movement, under Sturge, successfully achieved their goal of the abolition of apprenticeship in the West Indies. This meant that the split between the slave trade and apprenticeship aspects of the British post-abolition anti-slavery movement was temporarily resolved and Buxton wou…
Arguments for Colonial Expansion
After declaring independence in 1847, Liberia faced a series of new challenges in establishing itself as a sovereign nation, receiving diplomatic recognition, promoting trade, and continuing to combat the slave trade. Its separation from the ACS caused an unexpected boost in popularity amongst free African Americans. Combined with worsening conditions in the United States, emigration once again moved into the realm of possibility for prominent bl…
Transatlantic Anti-Slavery Networks
The early history of the anti-slavery colonization movement reveals both the extent and the limitations of the transatlantic networks involved in their founding. Although Freetown was founded thirty-five years before Monrovia, they faced similar problems in their early years: high rates of endemic disease and mortality; hostile relationships with indigenous groups; frequent clashes with slave traders in the region; and fraught relationships betwe…
The Abolitionist Propaganda War
In the 1820s, anti-slavery colonizationists in both Britain and America watched with anxious anticipation to see if Sierra Leone and Liberia would live up to their hopes of ending the slave trade through the establishment of ‘Civilization, Commerce, and Christianity’ on the continent of Africa. US agent to Africa, Ephraim Bacon, on his visit to West Africa, remarked on ‘the very friendly disposition which the colonial authorities [of Sierra Leone…
An African Middle Class
After the initial foundation of the colonies and the wars and disease that took their toll on the first groups of settlers, Sierra Leoneans began to focus on creating a new society that reflected their values and ambitions. Both colonies maintained strong links to the metropole — particularly the humanitarian societies that supported them — and both focused on establishing homes for freed slaves and centres for the promotion of Civilization, Comm…
Commercial Rivalry and Liberian Independence
After the collapse of the Niger Expedition and Buxton’s retreat from the anti-slavery field, anti-slavery sentiment in Britain became less radical and expansionist. Combined with the general reaction in the mid-1840s against radical politics after the failure of the Chartist Movement and the rising fortunes of the British middle class, Sierra Leoneans were left to explore, colonize, and evangelize West Africa pursuing the ideology of ‘Civilizatio…
Commercial Agriculture, the Slave Trade & Slavery in Atlantic Africa
Re-envisages what we know about African political economies through its examination of one of the key questions in colonial and African history, that of commercial agriculture and its relationship to slavery. This book considers commercial agriculture in Africa in relation to the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the institution of slavery within Africa itself, from the beginnings of European maritime trade in the fifteenth century to theearly stage…
Empires of the Imagination: Transatlantic Histories of the Louisiana Purchase
Book Review| January 01 2014 Empires of the Imagination: Transatlantic Histories of the Louisiana Purchase Empires of the Imagination: Transatlantic Histories of the Louisiana Purchase. Edited by Peter J. Kastor and François Weil. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009. 376 pp. $40 (cloth). Bronwen Everill Bronwen Everill Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2014) 33 (2): 105–…
Empire and Humanitarianism: A Preface
Empire and Humanitarianism: A Preface." The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 40(5), pp. 727–728
Destiny seems to point me to that country’: Early nineteenth-century African American migration, emigration, and expansion
Traditional American historiography has dismissed the Liberian settlement scheme as impractical, racist, and naïve. The movement of Americans to Liberia, and other territorial and extraterritorial destinations, however, reveals the ‘push’ and ‘pull’ factors that influenced movement in the African diaspora. The reaction of different African Americans to these factors influenced the political and social development of Liberia as well as the colony'…
Bridgeheads of Empire? Liberated African Missionaries in West Africa
Sierra Leone's ‘New Christian Evangelists’ have sometimes been seen as a ‘bridgehead’ of imperial expansion in Nigeria, tying into the literature that sees missionaries as natural agents of empire. However, the expansion of a similar group into the Cameroons did not result in the expansion of the British Empire. This article argues that the ability to tie missionary and commercial interests to a perceived humanitarian cause—ending the slave trade…
History and Humanitarianism: A Conversation
There has been an undeniable interest in recent years in the history of humanitarianism.It is a field that has grown quickly and, as a field of inquiry, it incorporates a vast spectrum of subjects: from the history of anti-slavery movements in the eighteenth century, emergency relief in times of famine in the nineteenth, responses to refugee crises in the twentieth, through to longer-term development and poverty eradication programmes during and …
Abolition and Empire in Sierra Leone and Liberia
Anti-slavery colonies – settlements for freed slaves that were intended to prevent the slave trade in West Africa – were established by both American and British societies. Although they occasionally attempted to work together in support of these settlements and their anti-slave trade goals, the societies were more frequently in conflict. Looking for the origin of this Anglo-American rivalry, this book applies a comparative approach to freed slav…
Bridgeheads of Empire? Liberated African Missionaries in West Africa
Sierra Leone's ‘New Christian Evangelists’ have sometimes been seen as a ‘bridgehead’ of imperial expansion in Nigeria, tying into the literature that sees missionaries as natural agents of empire. However, the expansion of a similar group into the Cameroons did not result in the expansion of the British Empire. This article argues that the ability to tie missionary and commercial interests to a perceived humanitarian cause—ending the slave trade…
Empire and Humanitarianism: A Preface
Empire and Humanitarianism: A Preface." The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 40(5), pp. 727–728
Profiting from Slavery and Emancipation: Compensation, Capital, and Collateral in Nineteenth-Century Senegal
The relationship between capitalism and slavery has been contentious because, in the Atlantic economy, enslaved people functioned as commodities, as labor, and as assets. The transition away from the Atlantic slave-trading system across the nineteenth century affected the stakeholders in these economic functions differently. Compensated emancipation in Senegal provides an opportunity for thinking about the possibilities and limitations of compens…
Destiny seems to point me to that country’: Early nineteenth-century African American migration, emigration, and expansion
Traditional American historiography has dismissed the Liberian settlement scheme as impractical, racist, and naïve. The movement of Americans to Liberia, and other territorial and extraterritorial destinations, however, reveals the ‘push’ and ‘pull’ factors that influenced movement in the African diaspora. The reaction of different African Americans to these factors influenced the political and social development of Liberia as well as the colony'…
For the services of shipwrights, coopers, and grumettas: Freetown's ship repair cluster in nineteenth-century Sierra Leone
This article looks at the development of Sierra Leone's ship repair cluster, particularly focusing on the period 1780 to 1860. It argues that several factors contributed to the colony's ability to develop a ship repair cluster. The first was the local environment, which provided both a safe harbor for ships and boats, and local materials that could be used on European and American ships. Secondly, the port's increasing commercial role and its uni…
All the baubles that they needed”: “Industriousness” and Slavery in Saint-Louis and Gorée
All the baubles that they needed" 'Industriousness' and Slavery in Saint-Louis and Gore
Empires of the Imagination: Transatlantic Histories of the Louisiana Purchase
Book Review| January 01 2014 Empires of the Imagination: Transatlantic Histories of the Louisiana Purchase Empires of the Imagination: Transatlantic Histories of the Louisiana Purchase. Edited by Peter J. Kastor and François Weil. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009. 376 pp. $40 (cloth). Bronwen Everill Bronwen Everill Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2014) 33 (2): 105–…
British West Africa or ‘The United States of Africa’? Imperial pressures on the transatlantic anti-slavery movement, 1839–1842
British West Africa or ‘The United States of Africa’? Imperial pressures on the transatlantic anti-slavery movement, 1839–1842
Empire and Humanitarianism: A Preface
Empire and Humanitarianism: A Preface." The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 40(5), pp. 727–728
Destiny seems to point me to that country’: Early nineteenth-century African American migration, emigration, and expansion
Traditional American historiography has dismissed the Liberian settlement scheme as impractical, racist, and naïve. The movement of Americans to Liberia, and other territorial and extraterritorial destinations, however, reveals the ‘push’ and ‘pull’ factors that influenced movement in the African diaspora. The reaction of different African Americans to these factors influenced the political and social development of Liberia as well as the colony'…
Bridgeheads of Empire? Liberated African Missionaries in West Africa
Sierra Leone's ‘New Christian Evangelists’ have sometimes been seen as a ‘bridgehead’ of imperial expansion in Nigeria, tying into the literature that sees missionaries as natural agents of empire. However, the expansion of a similar group into the Cameroons did not result in the expansion of the British Empire. This article argues that the ability to tie missionary and commercial interests to a perceived humanitarian cause—ending the slave trade…
Abolition and Empire in Sierra Leone and Liberia
Anti-slavery colonies – settlements for freed slaves that were intended to prevent the slave trade in West Africa – were established by both American and British societies. Although they occasionally attempted to work together in support of these settlements and their anti-slave trade goals, the societies were more frequently in conflict. Looking for the origin of this Anglo-American rivalry, this book applies a comparative approach to freed slav…
Epilogue: 1861 And Beyond
In 1860, the election of Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, precipitated a series of secession conventions throughout the Southern states. When war broke out in April 1861, Britain did not immediately take a side in the struggle. The reluctance of Britain’s government to involve itself with the US Civil War was not matched by a reluctance to get involved with Liberia. After years of deriding the country and its leadership and its ability to s…
Americans in Africa
From the early nineteenth century, African American settlers began arriving in West Africa — first in Freetown, later on Sherbro Island, and finally along the coast of what is now Liberia. These settlers arrived to escape slavery and racial prejudice at home. But like other settlers before and after them, they did not entirely sever their ties to their home country or their friends and family left behind. And since their move to Africa was politi…
Slave Trade Interventionism
Eighteen thirty eight marked the beginning of a new period of anti-slavery colonization history for a number of reasons. First, the Birmingham branch of the anti-slavery movement, under Sturge, successfully achieved their goal of the abolition of apprenticeship in the West Indies. This meant that the split between the slave trade and apprenticeship aspects of the British post-abolition anti-slavery movement was temporarily resolved and Buxton wou…
Arguments for Colonial Expansion
After declaring independence in 1847, Liberia faced a series of new challenges in establishing itself as a sovereign nation, receiving diplomatic recognition, promoting trade, and continuing to combat the slave trade. Its separation from the ACS caused an unexpected boost in popularity amongst free African Americans. Combined with worsening conditions in the United States, emigration once again moved into the realm of possibility for prominent bl…
Transatlantic Anti-Slavery Networks
The early history of the anti-slavery colonization movement reveals both the extent and the limitations of the transatlantic networks involved in their founding. Although Freetown was founded thirty-five years before Monrovia, they faced similar problems in their early years: high rates of endemic disease and mortality; hostile relationships with indigenous groups; frequent clashes with slave traders in the region; and fraught relationships betwe…
The Abolitionist Propaganda War
In the 1820s, anti-slavery colonizationists in both Britain and America watched with anxious anticipation to see if Sierra Leone and Liberia would live up to their hopes of ending the slave trade through the establishment of ‘Civilization, Commerce, and Christianity’ on the continent of Africa. US agent to Africa, Ephraim Bacon, on his visit to West Africa, remarked on ‘the very friendly disposition which the colonial authorities [of Sierra Leone…
An African Middle Class
After the initial foundation of the colonies and the wars and disease that took their toll on the first groups of settlers, Sierra Leoneans began to focus on creating a new society that reflected their values and ambitions. Both colonies maintained strong links to the metropole — particularly the humanitarian societies that supported them — and both focused on establishing homes for freed slaves and centres for the promotion of Civilization, Comm…
Commercial Rivalry and Liberian Independence
After the collapse of the Niger Expedition and Buxton’s retreat from the anti-slavery field, anti-slavery sentiment in Britain became less radical and expansionist. Combined with the general reaction in the mid-1840s against radical politics after the failure of the Chartist Movement and the rising fortunes of the British middle class, Sierra Leoneans were left to explore, colonize, and evangelize West Africa pursuing the ideology of ‘Civilizatio…
Commercial Agriculture, the Slave Trade & Slavery in Atlantic Africa
Re-envisages what we know about African political economies through its examination of one of the key questions in colonial and African history, that of commercial agriculture and its relationship to slavery. This book considers commercial agriculture in Africa in relation to the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the institution of slavery within Africa itself, from the beginnings of European maritime trade in the fifteenth century to theearly stage…
Empires of the Imagination: Transatlantic Histories of the Louisiana Purchase
Book Review| January 01 2014 Empires of the Imagination: Transatlantic Histories of the Louisiana Purchase Empires of the Imagination: Transatlantic Histories of the Louisiana Purchase. Edited by Peter J. Kastor and François Weil. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009. 376 pp. $40 (cloth). Bronwen Everill Bronwen Everill Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2014) 33 (2): 105–…
The Italo-Abyssinian Crisis and the Shift from Slave to Refugee
Britain's role as the leading anti-slavery force throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth century defined humanitarian action and rhetoric with regard to Africa in this period. At some point in the twentieth century, however, the primary victim group – and focus of humanitarian action – in Africa came to be defined as refugees. This article argues that this was a result of the use of anti-slavery rhetoric in the Italian invasion of Ethiopia,…
The Evolution of Economic Interventions and the Violence of International Accountability over the longue durée
British Humanitarianism and the Congo Reform Movement, 1896–1913, by Dean Pavlakis
This new account of the Congo Reform Association (CRA) is a welcome addition to the growing field of the history of humanitarianism. Dean Pavlakis presents a clear and comprehensive review of the CRA’s history as a movement, focused on its development, its strategies and an evaluation of its impact. Refreshingly, for this field of research, the book does not try to argue that this was a new or different kind of humanitarian organisation, but, in …
All the baubles that they needed”: “Industriousness” and Slavery in Saint-Louis and Gorée
All the baubles that they needed" 'Industriousness' and Slavery in Saint-Louis and Gore
History and Humanitarianism: A Conversation
There has been an undeniable interest in recent years in the history of humanitarianism.It is a field that has grown quickly and, as a field of inquiry, it incorporates a vast spectrum of subjects: from the history of anti-slavery movements in the eighteenth century, emergency relief in times of famine in the nineteenth, responses to refugee crises in the twentieth, through to longer-term development and poverty eradication programmes during and …
Ruma Chopra. Almost Home: Maroons between Slavery and Freedom in Jamaica, Nova Scotia, and Sierra Leone
In 1799, the governor and council of Sierra Leone reported to the Colonial Office that an estimated £5,450 would be required to provision the 560 banished Jamaican Maroon men, women, and children who would be sent to the colony after their unsuccessful resettlement in Nova Scotia. In accepting these settlers, the government of Sierra Leone was solving several of their problems at once: repairing a budget gap; increasing the population of the city…
Not Made by Slaves: Ethical Capitalism in the Age of Abolition
Eingegangene Bücher
Profiting from Slavery and Emancipation: Compensation, Capital, and Collateral in Nineteenth-Century Senegal
The relationship between capitalism and slavery has been contentious because, in the Atlantic economy, enslaved people functioned as commodities, as labor, and as assets. The transition away from the Atlantic slave-trading system across the nineteenth century affected the stakeholders in these economic functions differently. Compensated emancipation in Senegal provides an opportunity for thinking about the possibilities and limitations of compens…
For the services of shipwrights, coopers, and grumettas: Freetown's ship repair cluster in nineteenth-century Sierra Leone
This article looks at the development of Sierra Leone's ship repair cluster, particularly focusing on the period 1780 to 1860. It argues that several factors contributed to the colony's ability to develop a ship repair cluster. The first was the local environment, which provided both a safe harbor for ships and boats, and local materials that could be used on European and American ships. Secondly, the port's increasing commercial role and its uni…
History (23 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (19 works) · Political science (18 works) · Law (15 works) · Politics (11 works) · African history and culture studies (10 works) · Archaeology (10 works) · Ethnology (10 works) · History (9 works) · Sociology (9 works)