“It took so much violence to keep slavery in place for 400 years.”

Carrie Gibson is the author of three works of history: Empire’s Crossroads: A History of the Caribbean From Columbus to the Present Day (2014), El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America (2019) and the subject of our conversation today, The Great Resistance: The 400-Year Fight to End Slavery in the Americas (2026). Prior to gaining a PhD in history at the University of Cambridge in 2011, she worked as journalist for The Guardian and Observer in London and currently lives in Seoul, South Korea.