Lynda Morgan, associate professor of history at Mount Holyoke College, specializes in North American slave regimes; emancipation and reconstruction; segregation; African American history; and the civil rights movement.

She is currently teaching a course on Blacks in the North, exactly the place and time in which "12 Years a Slave" opens.

Q & A with Morgan about "12 Years a Slave"

She is available for media interviews.

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