Philip D. Morgan Explained

Nationality:	British
Alma Mater:	University College London University of Cambridge
Workplaces:	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).

Life

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]

Awards

For Slave Counterpoint (1998)

• 1998 American Historical Association, Albert J. Beveridge Award and Wesley Logan Prize
• 1999:

Bancroft Prize;

The first Frederick Douglass Prize, shared that year with the historian Ira Berlin, awarded by the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Yale University;^[2]

Organization of American Historians, Elliott Rudwick Prize ;

South Carolina Historical Society Prize;

Library of Virginia Literary Nonfiction Award;

Southern Historical Association, Frank L. and Harriet C. Owsley Prize; and

American Philosophical Society, Jacques Barzun Prize (1999).

Works

• Book: Colonial Chesapeake Society . Lois Green Carr . Philip D. Morgan . Jean Burrell Russo . 1988. UNC Press. 978-0-8078-4343-7 . (reprint 1991)
• Book: Strangers within the Realm: Cultural Margins of the First British Empire . Bernard Bailyn . Philip D. Morgan. Williamsburg, Va.. University of North Carolina Press. 1991. 978-0-8078-4311-6 .
• Book: Cultivation and Culture: Work and the Shaping of Afro-American Culture in the Americas. https://books.google.com/books?id=QpyWi_NCyukC&q=Philip+D.+Morgan+culture&pg=PP1. Ira Berlin . Ira Berlin . Philip D. Morgan. Introduction. University of Virginia Press. 1993. 978-0-8139-1421-3 .
• Book: Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry. UNC Press. 1998. 978-0-8078-4717-6 .
• Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=jaoC2BtS4OIC&q=Philip+D.+Morgan&pg=PA52. Interracial Sex In the Chesapeake and the British Atlantic World c.1700-1820. Sally Hemings & Thomas Jefferson: history, memory, and civic culture. Jan Lewis . Peter S. Onuf. University of Virginia Press. 1999. 978-0-8139-1919-5 .
• Philip D. Morgan, David Eltis, eds. "New Perspectives on The Transatlantic Slave Trade," William and Mary Quarterly, LVIII (January 2001).
• Book: Black Experience and the Empire. Philip D. Morgan . Sean Hawkins . Oxford University Press. 2006. 978-0-19-929067-3 .
• Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=6CuZ3lXGFz4C&q=Philip+D.+Morgan&pg=PA180. Arming Slaves in the American Revolution. Arming slaves: from classical times to the modern age . Christopher Leslie Brown . Philip D. Morgan . Yale University Press. 2006. 978-0-300-10900-9 .

Notes and References

1. http://history.jhu.edu/Faculty_Bio/morgan.html "Philip D. Morgan"
2. http://www.yale.edu/glc/events/1999.htm "Frederick Douglass Prize"