Rate Professor Seymour Drescher

Academic Profile

Academic Background: Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1960.

Research Interests: Slavery, abolition, European history, economic history.

Appointments: Distinguished University Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh (1986–present).

Awards: Frederick Douglass Book Prize (1992); Guggenheim Fellowship.

Publications:

• Abolition: A History of Slavery and Antislavery (Cambridge University Press, 2009).
• Econocide: British Slavery in the Era of Abolition (University of North Carolina Press, 1977).

Editorial Contributions: Editorial board, Slavery & Abolition.