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Mellon Transatlantic Seminar
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January 16, 2009 from 04:00 pm to 06:00 pm |
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| Where | Humanities 193 |
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Christopher Brown, Professor, Columbia University - "The Planter Class: Rise and Fall of a British Elite"
The Atlantic Imagination in the Age of Romanticism
Mellon Interdisciplinary Seminar at UCLA
Christopher L. Brown, professor of History at Columbia University, specializes in the history of eighteenth-century Britain, the early modern British Empire, and the comparative history of slavery and abolition, with secondary interests in the age of revolutions and the history of the Atlantic world. He is the author of Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism (UNC Press, 2006) and Arming Slaves: From the Classical Era to the Modern Age (Yale University Press, 2006). Currently, he is at work on two projects, one on British experience along the West African coast in the era of the Atlantic slave trade, and a second on the decline and fall of the British Planter class in the era of abolition and emancipation.
Please email Michael Meranze at meranze@history.ucla.edu for a copy of the pre-circulated paper.