Smart Women Write
Historian of the Atlantic slave trade, digital humanist and author of the Fort Negley UNESCO nomination

Angela Sutton

Angela Sutton co-founded Smart Women Write. She completed her PhD in history at Vanderbilt University in 2014 and worked at Vanderbilt’s Digital Humanities Center, including on the Slave Societies Digital Archive. Her academic manuscript, tentatively titled Gold Coast Rivalries, studied competition among European and West African traders on the 17th-century Gold Coast.

On the blog she wrote about dissertation habits, networking, the academic gig economy and writing trade history, and she documented her research for the nomination that put Nashville’s Fort Negley on UNESCO’s Slave Route Project in 2019.

51 posts, 2016–2020

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