Michael Guasco

I specialize in early American history, the American Revolution, the colonial Atlantic world, and the history of slavery. My research addresses the foundation and development of racial slavery in Anglo-America. My book, Slaves and Englishmen: Human Bondage in the Early Modern Atlantic World (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014), describes how slavery shaped the way Englishmen and Anglo-Americans thought about and interacted with the world in the years before plantation slavery became commonplace in England's American colonies. I am presently at work on a new project: a multi-generational study of the Pleasants family of Virginia and the tradition of dissent in colonial America and the early United States. 

Teaching

I teach the following courses:

• HIS 302 American History to 1877
• HIS 322 The Age of Discovery
• HIS 340 Colonial America
• HIS 341 Era of the American Revolution
• HIS 262 Piracy in the Americas
• HIS 441 Natives and Newcomers
• HIS 440 Slavery in the Americas