MMoR is thrilled to welcome Prof Jennifer Morgan back for a discussion of her new work on slavery and freedom in the seventeenth century, centering around Elizabeth Key—the black woman who sued for her freedom in Virginia in 1656.

Prof Morgan is the multi award-winning author of Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic (Duke University Press, 2021) and  Laboring Women: Gender and Reproduction in the Making of New World Slavery (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004). For the enduring and wide-ranging influence of her research, which examines the intersections of gender and race in in the early modern Black Atlantic, she was recently the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship.

Prof Morgan will pre-circulate the Introduction to her working monograph for discussion. Due to the nature of this workshop, places are extremely limited. Please contact mmor@kcl.ac.uk if you are interested in attending.

This will be taking place in person in London, venue TBC. The workshop will be followed by the IHR Europe 1500-1800 seminar by Lila O’Leary Chambers on a closely related subject and we warmly invite all participants to stay for this event.

Image: Map depicting the Colony of Virginia (according to the Second Charter), made by Willem Blaeu between 1609 and 1638.