"Inheritable Blood": Slavery & Sovereignty in Early America and the British Empire.
The Whitman College department of History welcomes Holly Brewer, Burke Chair of American History at the Univeristy of Maryland for the 48th Sivert O. and Marjorie Allen Skothein Lecture in History.
Holly Brewer specializes in Early American history, cultural and intellectual history, legal history, and comparative history, primarily with Great Britain. She is the author of By Birth or Consent: Children, Law, and the Anglo-American Revolution in Authority (2005). Her current research is on the ideological origins of slavery in early America and the British Empire.
This event is free and open to the public.
Thursday, September 29, 2016 at 7:00 pm
Olin Hall, 138
920 E Isaacs, Walla Walla, WA
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