JCB Reads: Katherine Johnston's The Nature of Slavery Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-Atlantic World

JCB Reads offers former JCB fellows the opportunity to share their recent book publications. These online events are open to anyone who is interested. The link to the Zoom meeting will be published a few days before the event takes place on the individual event page. This series was launched during the 2024-5 academic year, and our selections for the 2025-6 academic year have been made and will soon be published on our Events page.

Join us on Monday, November 3, 2025 at noon for a virtual discussion of The Nature of Slavery: Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-Atlantic World by Katherine Johnston (Montana State University). 

All are welcome!

About the book

"Katherine Johnston's The Nature of Slavery is a superb contribution to a growing literature on the history of race, medicine, environments, and slavery. Carefully researched and thoughtfully argued, the book unsettles basic assumptions about the origins of ideas about 'biological' race. It will be a must-read for years to come." -- Suman Seth, author of Difference and Disease: Medicine, Race, and Locality in the Eighteenth-Century British Empire

Read more about Professor Johnston's book here.