CHRISTIAN PINNEN is a 2022-2024 Bright Institute Fellow at Knox College and a professor of history at Mississippi College. He codirects the African American studies program there, and his research and teaching focus is on the history of race, slavery, and the law in the American colonial borderlands. His is the coauthor of Colonial Mississippi: A Borrowed Land with Charles Weeks.

Complexion of Empire asks big questions in the study of a small geographical area to expand the reader’s understanding of racially based slavery in the Americas.

CHRISTIAN PINNEN is a 2022-2024 Bright Institute Fellow at Knox College and a professor of history at Mississippi College. He codirects the African American studies program there, and his research and teaching focus is on the history of race, slavery, and the law in the American colonial borderlands. His is the coauthor of Colonial Mississippi: A Borrowed Land with Charles Weeks.

Complexion of Empire asks big questions in the study of a small geographical area to expand the reader’s understanding of racially based slavery in the Americas.

CHRISTIAN PINNEN is a 2022-2024 Bright Institute Fellow at Knox College and a professor of history at Mississippi College. He codirects the African American studies program there, and his research and teaching focus is on the history of race, slavery, and the law in the American colonial borderlands. His is the coauthor of Colonial Mississippi: A Borrowed Land with Charles Weeks.

Complexion of Empire asks big questions in the study of a small geographical area to expand the reader’s understanding of racially based slavery in the Americas.