Book Talk: Chloe L. Ireton’s Slavery & Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic

Chloe Ireton is a Lecturer in the History of Iberia and the Iberian World 1500-1800 at University College London and is currently also a British Academy Wolfson Fellow (2023-2026). Ireton’s first monograph, Slavery & Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic (Cambridge University Press, 2025) is an intellectual history exploring how free and enslaved Black people in the early Atlantic conceptualized and contested ideas about slavery and freedom. She is currently at work on two other books, a trade book titled Plotting for Freedom (2026) and a monograph, tentatively titled Infrastructures of Black Political Knowledge in the Early Modern Atlantic.