Uploaded December 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Jennifer L. Morgan is a historian and 2024 #MacFellow showing how the exploitation of enslaved African women's reproductive potential was central to the institutionalization of race-based slavery in early America.

Listen as she discusses her new project on the life of Elizabeth Key, one of the first African Americans to use the court system to demand, and ultimately win, her freedom.

Learn more about Jennifer:
macfound.org/fellows/class-of-2024/jennifer-l-morgan