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 the United States,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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