Bronwen Everill is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the former director of the Centre of African Studies at the University of Cambridge. Her writing has appeared in Foreign Policy, the Times Literary Supplement, and Smithsonian Magazine. She is the author of Not Made by Slaves and Abolition and Empire in Sierra Leone and Liberia. She teaches writing at Princeton and is a research affiliate of the Laboratory for the Economics of Africa's Past at Stellenbosch University.