Philip Morgan is the Harry C. Black Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. His Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry (1998) won the Bancroft, Beveridge, and Frederick Douglass prizes. He is coeditor most recently of Arming Slaves: From Classical Times to the Modern Age (2006), as well as Colonial Chesapeake Society (1988), Strangers within the Realm: Cultural Margins of the First British Empire (1991), and Black Experience and the British Empire (2004). He is working at the interface of Caribbean and North American history in the early modern era.

Lecture topics:

• African American Life in Lowcountry Georgia and the Early Modern Atlantic World
• The World of Books and the World of Slavery: A Jamaican Case Study
• Early Modern Atlantic History: A New Paradigm?
• Black Rice? Africans and the Development of Rice Culture in the Americas
• York: The Slave on the Lewis and Clark Expedition
• Black Sailors in the Early Modern Atlantic World

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