Peter H. Wood
Peter H. Wood | |
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| Born | 1943 (age 81–82) St. Louis, Missouri, USA |
| Education | Harvard University |
| Occupation(s) | Historian, author, educator |
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| Writing career | |
| Genre | American history |
| Subject | Black diaspora, African American history |
| Notable works | Black Majority (1974) |
Peter Hutchins Wood (born 1943 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American historian and author of Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion (1974). It is one of the most influential books on the history of the American South of the past 50 years. A former professor at Duke University in North Carolina, Dr. Wood is now an adjunct professor in the History Department at the University of Colorado Boulder, where his wife, Elizabeth A. Fenn is a professor emeritus in the History Department.