Former Fellow Katherine Paugh’s book, The Politics of Reproduction: Race, Disease, and Fertility in the Age of Abolition, has been published by Oxford University Press. The book addresses a new the frequently debated question of whether abolitionism was understood by contemporaries as economically beneficial to the British Empire, while also making new claims about the importance of Britain’s colonies in the emergence of population as a political problem. Portions of the book were written during her fellowship year (2015-16) at the Center.