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Adam Rothman is an associate professor of History in Georgetown University History Department, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Atlantic history, nineteenth century US history, and the history of slavery. Rothman's book Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South was published by Harvard University Press early in 2005. In 2007, he co-authored Major Problems in Atlantic History with his colleague Alison Games. Rothman is an expert in the history of the United States from the Revolution to the Civil War, and in the history of slavery and abolition in the Atlantic world. He is currently researching the history of emancipation in the United States and the history of New Orleans as a cosmopolitan city in the nineteenth century. He holds a B.A. from Yale University and a Ph.D. from Columbia University.