Richard Blackett holds the Andrew Jackson Chair of History at Vanderbilt University. His research focuses on the place of African Americans in the Atlantic world, particularly their efforts to end slavery and racial discrimination. His most recent book, Divided Hearts: Britain and the American Civil War, was published in 2000.

Lecture topics:

• Community Resistance to the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law
• British Popular Reaction to the American Civil War
• African Americans and the Anglo-American Abolitionist Movement
• African Americans, the British Working Class, and the Struggle for Freedom in the United States

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