John Harpham | The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery

The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery aims to provide a new standard account of the cultural context for the development of American slavery. It is Atlantic in scope, placing Africa and ideas about Africa at the center of the Atlantic world, but it also treats the much-discussed questions that surround the development of slavery in the English American colonies. The book covers the critical period from 1550 to 1700. In turn, it is planned as the first of three volumes in a series that will examine the ideas associated with the origins, development, and eventual abolition of slavery in the Anglo-American Atlantic world. 

About the Speaker

John Harpham is an Assistant Professor of Classics and Letters and Wick Cary Professor in the Institute for the American Constitutional Heritage at The University of Oklahoma. He received his doctorate in the Department of Government at Harvard University.

Co-sponsored by the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society and the Stanford Civics Initiative