Chloe Ireton – Reimagining the Black Iberian Atlantic

Chloe Ireton is a Lecturer in the History of Iberia and the Iberian World 1500-1800 at UCL and a British Academy Wolfson Fellow (2023-26). She works on histories of race, slavery, freedom, and empire in the early Southern Atlantic world. Her first book, entitled Slavery & Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic, has just come out with CUP. Her other publications include ‘Black Africans’ Freedom Litigation Suits to Define Just War and Just Slavery in the Early Spanish Empire,’ Renaissance Quarterly (2020), which was awarded the Renaissance Society of America William Nelson Prize for best article published in Renaissance Quarterly in 2020.