Prof. Julie Winch

BIOGRAPHY

Professor Julie Winch is Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She specialises in the areas of African American history, the Early American Republic, maritime history, and genealogy and family history. She has written a number of books within these areas, including Between Slavery and Freedom: Free People of Color in America from Settlement to the Civil War, and has also worked on various documentaries, including Africans in America and Who Do You Think You Are?