Degree:
Early Modern Europe
, professor, specializes in the history of the British Empire in the early modern era, and in the comparative history ofslavery and abolition. He also has secondary interests in the Age ofRevolutions 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.
