Suzanne Schwarz is Professor of History at the University of Worcester. Her research interests focus on the transatlantic slave trade and abolition in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Her latest publication focuses on 'Royal Attitudes to the Atlantic Slave Trade and Abolition in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries’, The English Historical Review (September 2023). Professor Schwarz is part of an international collaborative research project at the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on Africa and its Diasporas at York University, Toronto. This research project draws together scholars from across four continents and traces the ‘Testimonies of West Africans from the Era of Slavery’. She is Principal Investigator for a British Library Endangered Archives project to preserve rare documentary sources in the Sierra Leone Public Archives at Freetown. The current project (EAP1366) focuses on ‘ Preserving Records of Social and Political Life in Nineteenth-Century Sierra Leone’, and the previous phase of the project (EAP782) is entitled ‘Preserving nineteenth-century records in the Sierra Leone Public Archives’. Her research on Sierra Leone also examines the development of the colony, and the ways in which abolitionists attempted to undermine the slave trade and reform African economy and society through policies of ‘Commerce, Civilization and Christianity’.