Australia

Emma is an academic historian, writer and anti-slavery campaigner who is on the faculty at the University of Sydney and currently holds a five-year Australian Research Council Fellowship. She has previously held fellowships at Yale University and Monash University, and has worked extensively in West Africa. Her first book, Slave Ship Sailors and their Captive Cargoes, was hailed as “the most important book on the Atlantic slave trade in a very long time”. Her second book, A Merciless Place, jointly won the Ernest Scott prize for best book in Australian history and won the Kay Daniels prize for best book in Australian colonial history. She also wrote, The Devils at Hotel Africa, about a slave ‘factory’ at Cape Mesurado, Liberia. They Are We, her first film, won five Best Documentary Awards and has screened in more than 70 countries around the world. Biography Source

Filmography

They Are We (2013)