John Oldfield is Professor of Slavery and Emancipation at the University of Hull, UK. He has written extensively on the history of slavery and abolition in the Atlantic World, 1750-1850. His many publications include Chords of Freedom: Commemoration, Ritual and British Transatlantic Slavery (Manchester University Press, 2007) and, most recently, The Ties that Bind: Transatlantic Abolitionism in the Age of Reform, c. 1820-1865 (Liverpool University Press, 2020). He is the Principal Investigator/Coordinator of the ECHOES Project and between 2013 and 2019 was Director of the Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation.
