Yvonne Shorter Brown is an Afro-Jamaican settler to Turtle Island. She is a distinguished educator with some 50 years’ experience in various roles. Her research and writing focuses on the social, political, and economic legacies of the transatlantic slave trade, plantation-chattel slavery, and post-emancipation in the Americas. She is currently working on a political biography of Charles Archibald Reid, her maternal grandfather and a former Member of the Legislative Assembly of Jamaica.
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