Peter H.ÌýWood

  • Adjunct Professor
  • UNITED STATES
  • SLAVERY
Peter Wood

Peter H. WoodÌýtaught early American historyÌýatÌýÌýand is now an adjunct professor at the Î÷¹ÏÊÓƵ. His influential book, Black MajorityÌý(1974) about slavery in colonial South Carolina is now in an expanded 50th-anniversary edition. He is a co-author of the U.S. History survey, Created Equal (5 editions) and Winslow Homer’s Images of Blacks: The Civil War and Reconstruction Years (1988). Other works include:

  • Strange New Land: Africans in Colonial AmericaÌý(2002)
  • Co-editor, with Gregory A. Waselkov and M. Thomas Hatley, of Powhatan's Mantle: Indians in the Colonial Southeast (1989; revised and expanded edition, 2006).
  • Weathering the Storm: InsideÌý’s Gulf StreamÌý(2004)
  • Near Andersonville: Winslow Homer’s Civil WarÌý(2010)