Peter Walker, Ph.D.

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Assistant Professor

I teach a variety of courses in early modern History at the University of Wyoming. I am working on a book titled The Power of Suffering: Loyalism, the Church of England, and the American Revolution," which is under contract with Yale University Press. I received my PhD from Columbia University.

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.