“The strange origins of religious tolerance in North America”
Dr. 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 been a Fulbright Fellowship and has been a fellow at the Institute for Constitutional Studies. He also writes about wine, law, and contemporary culture for the blog Tropics of Meta.
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