Taylor Prescott

Taylor Prescott is a historian of abolition, empire, and migration in West Africa and the wider Black Atlantic. He is especially interested in eighteenth-and nineteenth-century Sierra Leone's global entanglements and interdisciplinary implications. Besides examining the socio-legal and political contours of Sierra Leonean history, Prescott also explores Black political sovereignties in the Thirteen Colonies, Barbados, Jamaica, Nova Scotia, and the Upper Guinea Coast. He is currently working on his first monograph, a global history of Sierra Leone which intervenes in historiographies of antislavery, Black economic thought, ethnogenesis, marronage, and the Age of Revolution.

 

His research has been supported by the Fulbright Foundation, the Gilder Lehrman Institute, the Huntington Library, the John Carter Brown Library, and the New York Public Library. Prescott's scholarship has also been recognized by the Doris G. Quinn Foundation, Penn Global, and The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.

 

During his free time, Prescott loves visiting museums, frequenting jazz clubs, tracing his family history, connecting with friends, and collecting vinyl.