EMSI History of Enslavement Seminar with Jenny Shaw, University of Alabama

The USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute History of Enslavement Seminar will meet with Jenny Shaw, Professor of History at the University of Alabama, on Friday, October 16, 2026. Professor Shaw’s research focuses on race and slavery in the early modern Atlantic world and Caribbean. At present, she is working on her third book, The Duchess and the Dandy: Gender, Race, and Spectacle in Britain’s Eighteenth-Century Empire. Her seminar paper is entitled, "'Forgetting that he was chance child': The Enslaved Childhood of Julius Soubise in Britain's Georgian Empire." Register to attend by O…