Research Axe Profile

Research Axe:

  • Art, Culture, and Society Exploration

Academic Department:

History and Global Studies

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Dr. Gordon Barker

Dr. Gordon Baker

Full Professor

Education: MA & PhD History, College of William & Mary and BA Economics & BA Honours History, McGill University

gordon.barker@ubishops.ca

Keywords: Slavery, race relations, black abolitionists, Revolutionary & Civil War eras

Research Project(s):

Studies Black agency, female fugitive slaves, and abolitionist movements in North America; currently writing on black abolitionists’ militancy and freedom struggles.