Christian McBurney writes: “My latest book is Dark Voyage: An American Privateer’s War on Britain’s African Slave Trade. It focuses on a Rhode Island privateer, the brainchild of merchant John Brown, that attacked a British slave trade fort and British slave trading ships on the coast of West Africa during the American Revolutionary War. I continue to publish and edit a leading Rhode Island history blog at smallstatebighistory.com. In an article, I wrote about four Brown undergrads who became successful popular historians; Edward Ball ’82, Eric Jay Dolin ’83, Nathaniel Philbrick ’78, and the late Tony Horwitz ’80. Find the article at the website by searching for Philbrick.
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Class of 1981