Oct. 8: Columbia Prof. Christopher Leslie Brown Webinar on Slavery & the American Revolution

Columbia University professor Christopher L. Brown will present a zoom webinar for Lawrentians on the topic of slavery and the American Revolution on Thursday October 8 at 7 p.m. This will be Brown’s second Lawrenceville talk.

Current community members will receive an email invitation to attend and a recording will be made available to alumni.

At Columbia, Brown 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. Brown holds a doctorate from Oxford University’s Balliol College and a B.A. from Yale.

A 1990 Rhodes Scholar, Brown is the author of  “Arming Slaves: From the Classical Era to the Modern Age” and “Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism,” which won the 2007 Frederick Douglass Book Prize from Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. The award is given to the year’s most outstanding non-fiction book in English on the subject of slavery, resistance, and/or abolition. His work has also been widely published in scholarly journals.

Brown was featured on Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s PBS documentary series, “Many Rivers to Cross,” which is widely used in Lawrenceville’s Fourth Form History Department curriculum.

He has been honored twice by the American Historical Association, winning both the 2006 Morris D. Forkosch Prize (for the best book in English in the field of British, British imperial, or British Commonwealth history since 1485) and the James A. Rawley Prize (for outstanding historical writing that explores aspects of integration of Atlantic worlds before the 20th century).

For additional information, please contact Lisa M. Gillard Hanson, director of Public Relations, at lgillard@lawrenceville.org.