In her first book, Laboring Women: Gender and Reproduction in the Making of New World Slavery (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004), Morgan shows that enslavement was fundamentally different for women because they were expected to both perform agricultural fieldwork and produce children, who were born into enslavement. In Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic (Duke University Press, 2021), Morgan explores the emergence of both racial slavery and capitalism-a crucial moment in world history because, she says, "I think we very much are living in its legacy today."

Morgan, who holds a bachelor's degree from Oberlin College and a PhD in history from Duke University, co-edited Connexions: Histories of Race and Sex in North America (University of Illinois Press, 2016) and her articles have been published in several journals, including History of the Present, the William and Mary Quarterly, and Small Axe.

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