Department of History
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Dr. Christine Walker
Assistant Professor of Atlantic World history at Yale-NUS College in Singapore NEW NARRATIVES OF EMPIRE: GENDER, SLAVERY AND FAMILY IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD 2 June 2023 (Fri) Online Event 10:00-11:30 |
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In this talk, Christine Walker will discuss her work on gender, slavery, and colonialism in early America. She will provide an overview of her first book, Jamaica Ladies: Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain’s Atlantic Empire. Recipient of the Best Book Award (Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender) and the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation Book Prize (American Society for Legal History), Jamaica Ladies is the first systematic study of the free and freed women of European, Euro-African, and African descent who perpetuated chattel slavery and reaped its profits. Dr. Walker will then describe her new book project, “Imperial Kin.” A global history of the families that built the British Empire between 1650 and 1830, “Imperial Kin” charts the rise of an intimate form of colonialism facilitated through marriage, reproduction, parenting, and domestic slavery. Christine Walker is an Assistant Professor of Atlantic World history at Yale-NUS College in Singapore. She is the author of Jamaica Ladies: Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain’s Atlantic Empire (University of North Carolina Press, 2020). She has published articles in the Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, Gender & History, and in several edited collections. Her current research has been awarded fellowships by the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Bodleian Library at Oxford University, and the Henry Huntington Library. She has previously received fellowships from the New-York Historical Society, the American Council of Learned Societies, and a Fulbright Research Grant from the U.S. Department of State. Join us here: https://hku.zoom.us/j/93656333979?pwd=TTR6OWtUcTdZZmdERlRadmZBRmhoZz09 All are welcome. No registration is required.
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