Peter Kolchin

Peter Kolchin
Born
Peter Robert Kolchin

(1943-06-03) June 3, 1943 (age 81)
New York, U.S.
EducationColumbia University (AB)
Johns Hopkins University (PhD)
OccupationHistorian
AwardsBancroft Prize (1988)

Peter Robert Kolchin[1] (born June 3, 1943) is an American historian. He has specialized in slavery and labor in the American South before and after the Civil War, and in comparisons with Russian serfdom and other forms of labor. He won the Bancroft Prize in American History and the Avery O. Craven Award for his book Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom (1987).

  1. ^ "Doctors of Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences". Conferring of Degrees at the close of the ninety-fourth academic year (PDF). Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins University. May 27, 1970. p. 52. Retrieved 2020-11-04.