Christopher Brown, Ph.D.

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Professor of History | Columbia University

Christopher Brown, Professor of History at Columbia University, researches, teaches, and writes about Britain, the British Empire, the History of Colonial Slavery and the Atlantic Slave Trade. He received his doctorate from Oxford University, which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar. His scholarship has received major awards and prizes in America History, British History, Atlantic History, and the Comparative History of Slavery and Abolition.

May 31, 2025

Episode 15: The Heavens Fall

The detainment of a West African-born enslaved Virginian named James Somerset in London leads to a court case decided by England's most powerful judge that challenges the foundations of slavery in the British Empire.