Childs, St. Julien Ravenel, 1897-1983
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1897 July 27 - 1983 March 30
Gender
- male
Occupations
Places
- Atlanta (Ga.) (Place of Birth)
- United States (Associated Country)
- Charleston (S.C.) (Residence)
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Peter H. Wood papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1131
Abstract
Peter Hutchins Wood (1943-), is a American historian who authored, "Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion." Wood was a Humanities Officer for the Rockefeller Foundation before teaching Colonial American history at Duke University from 1975 to 2008, where he was named Professor Emertius of History. Wood wrote the original version of "Black Majority" as his PhD dissertation at Harvard University, which was published in 1974.The...
Dates:
1964-1974; Majority of material found within 1973-1974