“A Just and Honourable Commerce”

Suzanne Schwarz is Professor of History at the University of Worcester, and an Honorary Research Fellow of the Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation at the University of Hull. She is Principal Investigator for a British Library Endangered Archives Project to preserve the rare and endangered archives in the Sierra Leone Public Archives. She is co-editor with Paul E. Lovejoy of Slavery, Abolition and the Transition to Colonialism in Sierra Leone (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2015), and she has published articles in History in Africa (2012) and African Economic History (2010) focusing on the experiences of the first “recaptives” released by Royal Navy patrols at Sierra Leone.