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Biography
Education
D. Phil. – Balliol College, Oxford University 1994
B.A. - Yale University 1990
Current Departmental Service
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Interests and Research
Christopher L. Brown, professor, 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 now 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.
Affiliations
The American Historical Association
North American Conference on British Studies
Associates of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
Mid-Atlantic Conference on British Studies
Association of Caribbean Historians
Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction
Teaching
Courses
Slavery in World History
The Atlantic Slave Trade
The British Empire
Contemporary Civilization II
England and the Wider World, 1500-1800
Comparative Slavery and Abolition
Imperial Britain
Awards
Frederick Douglass Prize from the Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale University – 2007
Morris D. Forkosch Prize from the American Historical Association - 2006
James A. Rawley Prize from the American Historical Association - 2006
Douglass Adair Memorial Award for the best article published in the William and Mary Quarterly - 2004
Second Decade Society Chair, The Johns Hopkins University – 2003
Omohundro Institute Fellow at the Huntington Library, San Marino, Ca. – 2001
ABC-Clio America: History and Life Award from the Organization of American Historians - 2001
Senior Fellow. Gilder Lehrman Center for the study of Slavery, Abolition, and Resistance – 2000
National Society, Daughters of Colonial Wars for best essay published in the William
and Mary Quarterly in 1999 - 2000
Raoul Wallenburg Fellow. Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis – 1998
Mayers and W. M. Keck Foundation Fellow. Huntington Library, San Marino, California - April, 1996
Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Early American History and Culture – 1996
National Finalist for White House Fellowship - 1994
Jowett Senior Scholarship. Balliol College, Oxford – 1992
Roosevelt L. Thompson Award for Community Service at Yale University – 1990
Rhodes Scholarship – Washington D.C. – Maryland – 1990
Selected Publications
Books
Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism
Arming Slaves: From the Classical Era to the Modern Age
Scholarly Articles
“Slavery and Antislavery, 1760-1820,” in Oxford Handbook on the Atlantic World, c. 1450-1820. (forthcoming 2009).
“The British Government and the Slave Trade: Early Parliamentary Enquiries,1714-1783” in The British Slave Trade: Abolition, Parliament and the People. pp. 27-41, 2007.
“Christianity and the Campaign Against Slavery and the Slave Trade,” in The Cambridge History of
Christianity – Volume VII: “Enlightenment, Revolution, and Reawakening, 1660-1815,” pp. 517-535,
2006.
“The Arming of Slaves in Comparative Perspective,” in Arming Slaves: From the Classical Era to the Modern Age, co-edited with Philip D. Morgan pp. 330-353, 2006.
“From Slaves to Subjects: Envisioning an Empire Without Slaves, 1772-1834,” in The Oxford History of Blacks in the British Empire, pp. 114-140, 2004.
“The Politics of Slavery,” in The British Atlantic World, pp. 214-232, 2002.
“Empire Without Slaves: British Concepts of Emancipation in the Age of the American Revolution,” The William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Series, LVI, 2, pp. 273-306, 1999.
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