#Holly #Brewer is Burke Professor of American History and Associate Professor at the University of Maryland.
She is a specialist in early American history and the early British empire as well as early modern debates about justice.
Her first book traced the origin and impact of "democratical" ideas across the empire by examining debates about who can consent in theory and legal practice:
By Birth or Consent: Children, Law, and the Anglo-American Revolution in Authority.
is currently finishing a book that examines the origins of American slavery in larger political and ideological debates:
It is tentatively entitled
"Slavery & Sovereignty in Early America and the British Empire,”
for which she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2014.
She published part of it as "Slavery, Sovereignty and 'Inheritable Blood': Reconsidering John Locke and the Origins of American Slavery"
in the American Historical Review (October 2017).
Also see her “Slavery-Entangled Philosophy: Does Locke’s Entanglement with Slavery Undermine his Philosophy?” AEON, September 12, 2018.
https://aeon.co/essays/does-lockes-entanglement-with-slavery-undermine-his-philosophy.
https://history.umd.edu/directory/holly-brewer