Colin a palmer history of europe

Jamaican American historian (1944–2019)

Colin Alphonsous Palmer (March 23, 1944 − June 20, 2019)^[1] was a Jamaican American historian. He was a Dodge Professor of History and African American studies at Princeton University.^[2]

Palmer was an author of several monographs pertaining to the history of diasporic Africans. His work mainly focused on the effects of the enslavement and colonization of Africans. The effects that he discusses are known as the African Diaspora^{[citation needed]}. Palmer attended the University of the West Indies for his bachelor's degree, followed by a masters and PH.D from the University of Wisconsin. He went on to teach at several institutions including Oakland University, the University of North Carolina, and the City University of New York.^{[citation needed]} One of his most notable works, Freedom's Children, contains an in-depth overview of British colonialism in Jamaica one hundred years aft