Christine Walker

I am an Associate Professor of History at the University of Hong Kong. I write about women, gender, slavery and race in early America and the British Empire. My first book, Jamaica Ladies: Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain's Atlantic Empire (University of North Carolina Press, 2020), is the first systematic study of the free and freed women who perpetuated chattel slavery and reaped its profits in the early modern era. Winner of the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation Book Prize by the American Society for Legal History, the Best Book Award by the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender, and a finalist for the Harriet Tubman Prize, granted by the Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery, Jamaica Ladies reveals women’s instrumental roles in creating the wealthiest and the largest slaveholding colony in British America.