Carrie Gibson

About The Author

Carrie Gibson is the author of two acclaimed works of history, Empire’s Crossroads: A History of the Caribbean from Columbus to the Present Day, and El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America. She received a PhD from Cambridge University focusing on the Spanish Caribbean in the era of the Haitian Revolution and has worked as a journalist for The Guardian and contributed to other publications, as well as the BBC. She has done research across Mexico, the Caribbean, South America, and the United States. She lives in Seoul, South Korea.

Books by Carrie Gibson

The Great Resistance
By Carrie Gibson
Read by Leon Nixon
“[A] magisterial account . . . Gibson constructs a sweeping vision of resistance to slavery as a defining element of Western history that made “abstract concepts of freedom concrete.” Expansive and elegant, this is a marvel.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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