Graduate Student Intern
Born and raised in Kampala, Uganda, Arthur has variously lived, studied, and worked in Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States, including as a corporate transactional lawyer in New York City where he is admitted to practice law. By examining lived experience concomitant with social history legal sources (deeds, probate, court records) in the context of New England legal regimes and legal rules dictated by statute, ordinance, and local regulation, Arthur’s dissertation traces the changing statuses of New England’s unfree populace–bonded Africans, Native Americans, and European indentured servants–over the course of the seventeenth century.