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Christopher L Brown

Professor
610 Fayerweather Hall
Mail Code: 2532


Phone
work: +1 212 854 4591


Email
clb2140@columbia.edu

Office Hours
Wednesdays, 2-3 p.m.

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Christopher L Brown
Professor
Columbia University

History

Europe Area Chair, Personnel Committee

Biography
Christopher L. Brown, professor, specializes in the history of the British Empire in the early modern era, and in the comparative history of slavery and abolition. He also has secondary interests in the Age of Revolutions and the history of the Atlantic World. He received his B.A. from Yale University and his D.Phil. from Balliol College , Oxford . His published works include Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism (2006), and Arming Slaves: From Classical Times to the Modern Age (co-ed., 2006). At present, he is working on two long-term projects, one on the British in Africa in the era of the Atlantic slave trade, and the other on the British planter class in the era of emancipation.

 

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