Bronwen Everill

Bronwen Everill is a lecturer in history and fellow of Gonville & Caius College at the University of Cambridge. Most recently, she is the author of Not Made by Slaves: Ethical Capitalism in the Age of Abolition.

Articles by Bronwen Everill

An undated pencil drawing depicts work on a sugar plantation in the West Indies. Black children are among the laborers working to chop sugar cane under the watchful eye of a suited white overseer wearing a hat.

Sugar as Modern Capitalism’s Original Sin

Review

Bronwen Everill

May 21, 2023, 6:00 AM

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The Foods That ‘Changed’ the World

Review

Bronwen Everill

October 9, 2022, 7:05 AM

Firestone workers carry buckets of latex down a road lined with rubber trees in Harbel, Liberia, in 1978.

When the Rubber Hits the Road

Review

Bronwen Everill

November 6, 2021, 7:00 AM

Parisians buy bread in August 1944, after years of living off of rations.

On Bread and Circuses

Review

Bronwen Everill

October 1, 2021, 3:00 PM

The sun rises over Lindsey oil refinery.

Why The World’s Governments Should Pay Polluters

Argument

Bronwen Everill

August 13, 2021, 1:37 PM

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Harriet Tubman and the Search for Freedom Beyond American Borders

Argument

Bronwen Everill

January 30, 2021, 6:00 AM

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