At the Center she will work on a book project, Emancipation’s Shadow: Illegal Slavery in the Brazilian Atlantic, a narrative history of people who became enmeshed in the networks of illegal slavery in the nineteenth-century Atlantic World, linking Brazil with West and West Central Africa, the U.S., Cuba, Great Britain, and Portugal. Her research investigates the significance of illegal slavery and coercive labor that emerged throughout the Atlantic World, especially Brazil, amidst an anti-slavery movement. Attention to illegal slavery offers a counter narrative to the history of the nineteenth-century as the “Age of Emancipation.” Dr. Miki’s project asks how illegal slavery can critique these liberal, modernizing narratives that have been foundational to Atlantic World history.