Padraic X. Scanlan

Padraic X. Scanlan is Associate Professor at the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies and the Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources at the University of Toronto. He is also a Research Associate at the Centre for History and Economics at the University of Cambridge and Harvard University. He is an historian of labour, enslaved and free, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He is the author of two books, Slave Empire: How Slavery Built Modern Britain (Robinson, 2020) and Freedom’s Debtors: British Antislavery in Sierra Leone in the Age of Revolution (Yale University Press, 2017).

Professor Scanlan is currently working on a history of the Irish Great Famine, agricultural labour and imperial political economy, and a history of the working day in the nineteenth century. 

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