This is one of the last pieces of writing Gísli and I did as part of the #CitiGen project (2016-19), funded by Humanities in the European Research Area, and I'm really glad to finally see it in print. Thanks to the editors Karen-Margrethe Simonsen, Madeleine Dobie & @mabaggesgaard.bsky.social‬ 🌟

The chapter follows Gísli's amazing book "The Man Who Stole Himself", and considers to what extent genomics can help solve mysteries about the parentage of historically enslaved individuals, and how to write these bio-graphies without erasing the voices, agency, and kinship choices of the dead