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Dr. Judith Spicksley

is a lecturer in the Wilberforce Institute at the University of Hull. She is currently preparing a long run re-evaluation of the institution of slavery as ownership for publication. As a social and economic historian of the early modern period, she has also worked on debt slavery, never-married women and credit, and medicine and infertility.
Shakespeare and the language of slavery
Shakespeare and Beyond

Shakespeare and the language of slavery

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Dr. Judith Spicksley

A Folger fellow shares her research into the language of slavery in early modern England, and more specifically, the use of that language in the works of William Shakespeare.