Philip D. Morgan | |
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Born | 1949 (age 72–73) |
Nationality | British |
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Alma mater | University College London University of Cambridge |
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Institutions | Johns Hopkins University College of William &Mary |
Philip D. Morgan (born 1949) is a British historian. He has specialized in Early Modern colonial British America and slavery in the Americas. In 1999,he won both the Bancroft Prize and the Frederick Douglass Prize for his book Slave Counterpoint:Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry (1998).
Born in England,Morgan graduated from Cambridge University and received his PhD from University College London.
Morgan taught at the College of William and Mary and was editor of the William and Mary Quarterly from 1997 to 2000. He teaches at Johns Hopkins University,where he is the Harry C. Black Professor of History,and during the 2011-12 academic year is the visiting Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University. [1]
For Slave Counterpoint (1998)
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