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Adam Rothman
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Adam Rothman is a professor of history in the Georgetown University History Department and director of Georgetown's Center for the Study of Slavery and Its Legacies. He studies the history of the United States from the Revolution to the Civil War, and the history of slavery and abolition in the Atlantic world. His books include Facing Georgetown's History: A Reader on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation (co-edited with Elsa Barraza Mendoza, 2021), Beyond Freedom's Reach: A Kidnapping in the Twilight of Slavery (2015), Major Problems in Atlantic History (with Alison Games, 2007), and Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South (2005). He holds a B.A. from Yale University and a Ph.D. from Columbia University.