Born in North Guilford in 1754, Abraham Baldwin studied at Yale for the ministry and served as a chaplain during the Revolutionary War. After moving to Georgia and switching to a legal career, he became a delegate for Georgia at the Constitutional Convention in 1787 and played a crucial role there. He founded the University of Georgia and represented Georgia in the House and Senate until his death in 1807.

Join us on October 30 when Glenn Falk will talk about Baldwin’s less well-known role in perpetuating the institution of slavery.

Glenn Falk is Professor of the Practice in Public Policy and Law at Trinity College in Hartford, where he teaches American legal history and other subjects. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School.

As passionate about history as he is about the law, Professor Falk holds a master’s degree in history from Trinity College in addition to his undergraduate and law degrees from Harvard. His areas of interest include the history of the United States Supreme Court and law in the early American republic, with an emphasis on the framing of the Constitution, slavery, federal and state relations with Indigenous people, the history of gun rights and gun regulation, and the modern ramifications of these subjects.