Don't miss world-leading historian Richard Blackett, who will be visiting Nottingham to talk about slaves and their fight against slavery. Professor Blackett is Andrew Jackson Professor of History at Vanderbilt University and a leading expert on abolitionism, especially the roles that African Americans played in the movement to abolish slavery, and the connections to Britain. He is the author of numerous acclaimed books, including Building an Antislavery Wall: Black Americans in the Atlantic Abolitionist Movement(1983); Divided Hearts: Britain and the American Civil War (2001); and Making Freedom: The Underground Railroad and the Politics of Slavery (2013). At present he is working on a book about how slaves, by escaping, influenced the politics of slavery. Blackett is Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University for the 2013-14 academic year and previously taught at the University of Pittsburgh, Indiana University, and the University of Houston. He is also past president of the Association of Caribbean Historians.