...is a professor in the history department at Boston University and is a subject matter expert on the history of Africa, the African Diaspora and the Atlantic world and will discuss the following topics: (a)  his groundbreaking findings on the origins of the first documented Africans brought to English America, and the environment of their lives prior to being kidnapped and enslaved; (b)  Africa and Africans in the Formation of the Atlantic world, 1400-1680 (1992); and (c) Warfare in Atlantic Africa, 1500-1800 (1999).