Participant Info

First Name

Lee

Last Name

Wilson

City

State

SC

Zip Code

29634

Research Interests

Early American legal history, law of slavery, property law, constitutional law

Willing to be contacted by the media

Yes

On the academic market

No

University

Clemson University

About Me

Lee B. Wilson is a historian of colonial British America and the early modern Atlantic world. Her research interests include the legal history of early American slave societies, colonial property law, and legal discourse. Dr. Wilson received her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia and her J.D. from Fordham University School of Law. Her book, Bonds of Empire: The English Origins of Slave Law in South Carolina and British Plantation America, 1660-1783, is forthcoming in July 2021 from Cambridge University Press.

Email

wilson1@clemson.edu