Life
Morgan graduated from Oberlin College in 1986 with a BA in Third World Studies,a self-designed major. [3] She has credited much of her later academic success to Adrienne Lash Jones,Oberlin's third tenured Black professor and the first tenured Black professor in the Africana studies department. [3] Morgan earned her PhD in history from Duke University in 1995. [2] Her dissertation was titled Laboring women:Enslaved women,reproduction,and slavery in Barbados and South Carolina,1650–1750. [4]
Morgan's first book,Laboring Women,was published in 2004. It discusses the experiences of enslaved women in colonial Barbados and South Carolina,including how enslavers exploited the reproduction of enslaved women to grow their labor force. [1]
Her second book,Reckoning with Slavery (2021),is an analysis of accounting practices by enslavers. [1] It won both the Mary Nickliss Prize in Women's and/or Gender History from the Organization of American Historians and the Frederick Douglass Book Prize from the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery,Resistance,and Abolition. [3]
Morgan appeared in the 2023 Netflix documentary Stamped from the Beginning . [5]
As of 2024,Morgan is working on a third book,The Eve of Slavery, which will examine "African women in seventeenth-century North America," including the story of Elizabeth Key,an enslaved woman who successfully sued for her freedom. [1]
Morgan lives in New York City. [2] She is currently a fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. [6]
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