Academic & Teaching staff

Dr Manuel Barcia Paz

Senior Lecturer in Latin American Studies

m.barcia@leeds.ac.uk

0113 343 7617

Manuel studied History at undergraduate level at the University of Havana. He then took a MA in Comparative History and a PhD in History at the University of Essex. After concluding his PhD he went on to teach at the universities of Essex and Nottingham before coming to Leeds in 2006. Manuel's research focuses on the history of slavery and the slave trade in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world. He is also a contributor to Foxsoccer.com, The Huffington Post, The Independent, and Al Jazeera in English.

Books

• Children of Allah and Shango: West African Warfare in Bahia and Cuba, 1807-1844 (Sponsored by a Leverhulme Research Fellowship)

• St Helena and the Abolition of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, 1840-1864 (working title)

• The Great African Slave Revolt of 1825: Cuba and the Fight for Freedom in Matanzas (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2012)

• Seeds of Insurrection: Domination and Slave Resistance on Cuban Plantations (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008)

Selected Articles and Book Chapters

'An Islamic Atlantic Revolution: Dan Fodio's Jihad and Slave Rebellion in Bahia and Cuba, 1804-1844', Journal of African Diaspora, Archaeology, and Heritage 2:1 (2013), 6-17.

'Un coloso sobre la arena: Definiendo el camino hacia la plantación esclavista en Cuba, 1792-1825', Revista de Indias, 71:251 (2011), 53-76.

'Cuba' [co-authored with Matt D. Childs], in Mark Smith and Robert Paquette, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 90-110.

'El Conde de Villanueva y la alternativa de la Cuba Grande: una aproximación a la labor de Claudio Martínez de Pinillos al frente de la Intendencia de Hacienda de la isla de Cuba, 1825-1851', in M^a. Dolores González-Ripoll and Izaskun Álvarez Cuartero, eds., Francisco de Arango y la invención de la Cuba azucarera (Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 2009), pp. 289-300.

'Rebeliones de esclavos, rebeliones de "libres de color": una comparación entre Bahía y la Habana-Matanzas, 1795-1844', in José A. Piqueras, ed., Trabajo libre y coactivo en sociedades de plantación (Madrid: Siglo XXI, 2009), pp. 345-368. 

'Locking Horns with the Northern Empire: Anti-American Imperialism at the Conference of 1966 in Havana', The Journal of Transatlantic Studies 7:3 (2009), pp. 208-217.

'A Not-so-Common Wind: Slave Revolts in the Age of Revolutions in Cuba and Brazil', Review: The Journal of the Fernand Braudel Center 31:2 (2008), pp. 169-194.

'Middle Passage Afflictions in the Work of Francisco Barrera y Domingo: Literature, Politics and Disease', in Naana Opoku-Agyemang, Paul E. Lovejoy and David V. Trotman, eds., African and its Diasporas: History, Memory and Literary Manifestations (Trenton and Asmara: Africa World Press, 2008), pp. 53-64.

'Les Epines de la Truite: Les juntes anti-françaises de La Havane en 1809', Nuevo Mundo-Mundos Nuevos 8 (2008), online at: http://nuevomundo.revues.org/

'Havana', 'Sierra Leone' and 'Suicide', in Toyin Falola and Amanda Warnock, eds., Encyclopaedia of the Middle Passage: Greenwood Milestones in African American History (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007), pp. 208-210, 344-345, and 363-364.

'Sugar, Slavery, and Bourgeoisie: The Emergence of the Cuban Sugar Industry', in Ulbe Bosma, Juan Giusti-Cordero, and G. Roger Knight, eds., Sugarlandia Revisited: Sugar and Colonialism in Asia and the Americas (Oxford and New York: Berghahn, 2007), pp. 145-158.

'Fighting with the Enemy's Weapons: The Usage of the Colonial Legal Framework by Nineteenth Cuban Slaves', Atlantic Studies 3:2 (2006), pp. 159-181.

'Exorcising the Storm: Revisiting the Origins of the Repression of the Conspiracy of La Escalera in Cuba', Colonial Latin America Historical Review 15:3 (2006), pp. 311-326.

'Revolts amongst Enslaved Africans in Nineteenth-Century Cuba: A New Look to an Old Problem', The Journal of Caribbean History 39:2 (2005), pp. 173-200.

'Resistance Re-examined: An Overview of the Term and its Implications', SEPHIS E-Magazine, 1:3 (2005). Online at: http://www.sephis.org/

Editorial Work

External Positions

• Elected Member. Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS) Committee.
• Honorary Fellow. Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation (WISE). University of Hull.
• Advisory Board. Atlantic Slave Database Network. http://slavebiographies.org/project/
• External reader for the university presses of Florida, Georgia, Louisiana State, and Wales.
• External reader for the Journal of Latin American Studies, The Historical Journal, EIAL, Revista de Indias, and the Bulletin of Latin American Research.

Teaching

• SPPO1042 Historical Development of Spain and Spanish America
• SPPO2510 and SPPO2511 Latin America since Independence (Co-ordinator)
• SPPO3510 From Toussaint to Obama: Resistance in the African Diaspora (Co-ordinator)
• MA in Modern Languages and Cultures (School of Modern Languages and Cultures)
• MA in Race and Resistance (School of History).

School and/or University Responsibilites

• Deputy Director. Institute for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies (ICPS)
• School Representative for the Institute of Colonial & Postcolonial Studies
• Management Committee: Institute of Colonial & Postcolonial Studies
• School's Director of History Research Group
• School's International Recruitment Committee.

 PhD Supervision

• Dr Francisco Tudela, “Cuba’s Love Affair with Violence: 1940s Revolutionary Groups”
• Jose Miguel Diaz Rodriguez, “Revisiting Empire: The Poetics and Politics of Contemporary Spanish Representations of the Philippines”
• Jennifer L. Nelson, “Emancipados in the Atlantic World:  The Courts of Mixed Commission in Havana and Rio de Janeiro 1819-1845”