UNCW History Department Presents: “From Subjugation to Science: How the Transatlantic Slave Trade led to the Development of Technology,’ a talk by Jim Downs, the Gilder Lehrman-National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Civil War Era Studies and History. He is the author of Sick From Freedom: African American Sickness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction (Oxford UP, 2012), Stand By Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation (Basic Books, 2016) and Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine (Harvard UP, 2021). He has published articles and essays in The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Slate, Vice, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The L.A. Review of Books, among others. Event takes place via Zoom: https://uncw.zoom.us/j/82476259526?pwd=UENXZ2pkSnNjeFJXU2dqcVY5VUtidz09