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Viola Franziska Müller

Postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in history, University of Bonn

Postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in history, University of Bonn Viola Franziska Müller is a historian at the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies at University of Bonn. She is the author of Escape to the City: Fugitive Slaves in the Antebellum Urban South (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022) and co-editor of Coercion and Wage Labour: Exploring Work Relations through History and Art (London: UCL Press, 2023). Her research interests include global history, slavery, labor coercion, inequality, illegality, im/mobility, race, resistance, and urban history.