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Christopher L Brown
Professor
Columbia University
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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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