Personal Statement:
My graduate course focuses on the 1760-1820 period; its primary purpose is to introduce students to the historiography and current literature dealing with the American Revolution, the Constitution, and early national development. The main emphasis is upon the political, constitutional, and cultural history of the period. My current research deals with the issue of the reopening of the slave trade in South Carolina at the beginning of the nineteenth century.

Representative Publications:
"Republicanism and Slavery: Origins of the Three-Fifths Clause in the Constitution," William and Mary Quarterly (1971).

"Slave Disturbance in Georgetown, South Carolina in 1802," South Carolina Historical Magazine (1972).

"Jefferson and Slavery," Forum Series in History (1975).

"Slavery, Economics, and Congressional Politics, 1790," Journal of Southern History (August 1980).