“Finding Justice in an Unjust System: The Beverly Dowling Story.”
“I’m thinking through a new book on kidnapping and slavery, and I’ve found some interesting stories, some of which rather defy our expectations about the nineteenth century.”
H. Robert Baker is Associate Professor of History at Georgia State University and is the author of Prigg v. Pennsylvania: Slavery, the Supreme Court, and the Ambivalent Constitution (2012) and The Rescue of Joshua Glover: A Fugitive Slave, the Constitution,and the Coming of the Civil War (2006). His scholarly articles have appeared in the Law and History Review, Common-Place, and the Journal of Supreme Court History. He holds a Ph.D. in History from UCLA, where he studied with Joyce Appleby. He has received a Fulbright Fellowship and has also been a fellow at the Institute for Constitutional Studies. He also writes about wine, law, and contemporary culture for the blog Tropics of Meta.
Dr. Baker’s presentation may be viewed at: https://www.facebook.com/FirstExistentialist/videos/916607052507231