Johns Hopkins UniversityEst. 1876

America’s First Research University

Meet Walter Johnson

Walter Johnson is the Winthrop Professor of History and professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University and author of Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market.

Published Works

Slavery's Ghost
The Problem of Freedom in the Age of Emancipation

Richard Follett, Eric Foner, and Walter Johnson

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