Katana VentraIP

Philip D. Morgan

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).

Philip D. Morgan

1949 (age 74–75)

British

University College London
University of Cambridge

Johns Hopkins University
College of William & Mary

Life[edit]

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]

1998 , Albert J. Beveridge Award and Wesley Logan Prize

American Historical Association

1999:

For Slave Counterpoint (1998)

Lois Green Carr; Philip D. Morgan; Jean Burrell Russo, eds. (1988). . UNC Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-4343-7. (reprint 1991)

Colonial Chesapeake Society

Bernard Bailyn; Philip D. Morgan, eds. (1991). Strangers within the Realm: Cultural Margins of the First British Empire. Williamsburg, Va.: University of North Carolina Press.  978-0-8078-4311-6.

ISBN

Ira Berlin; Philip D. Morgan (1993). . In Ira Berlin (ed.). Cultivation and Culture: Work and the Shaping of Afro-American Culture in the Americas. University of Virginia Press. ISBN 978-0-8139-1421-3.

"Introduction"

. UNC Press. 1998. ISBN 978-0-8078-4717-6.

Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry

Jan Lewis; Peter S. Onuf, eds. (1999). . Sally Hemings & Thomas Jefferson: history, memory, and civic culture. University of Virginia Press. ISBN 978-0-8139-1919-5.

"Interracial Sex In the Chesapeake and the British Atlantic World c.1700-1820"

Philip D. Morgan, David Eltis, eds. "New Perspectives on The Transatlantic Slave Trade," William and Mary Quarterly, LVIII (January 2001).

Philip D. Morgan; Sean Hawkins, eds. (2006). . Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-929067-3.

Black Experience and the Empire

Christopher Leslie Brown; Philip D. Morgan, eds. (2006). . Arming slaves: from classical times to the modern age. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-10900-9.

"Arming Slaves in the American Revolution"