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David Richardson, BA (Hons), MA, Manchester is Director of The Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation (WISE). He is Professor of Economic History in the Department of History, University of Hull and formerly Ford Foundation Senior Visiting Scholar, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research, Harvard University (1987-8) and Post-doctoral Associate, Gilder-Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition, Yale University (2004). He serves on the editorial board of Slavery and Abolition, on the Executive Committee of the Nigerian Hinterland Project, Tubman Institute, York University, Toronto, and on the Advisory Board of the NEH funded Electronic Slave Trade Database Project at Emory University, Atlanta. He currently sits on the Scientific Committee of the UNESCO Slave Route Project.

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