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).
Born in New York, Peter Kolchin attended local schools. He graduated from Columbia University with an A.B. in 1964,[2] and conducted graduate work at Johns Hopkins University, where he received a Ph.D. in 1970. His doctoral thesis was entitled First Freedom: The Responses of Alabama's Blacks to Emancipation and Reconstruction.[1]
First Freedom: The Responses of Alabama's Blacks to Emancipation and Reconstruction. University of Alabama Press. 1972. (Revised Ed. 2008, ISBN978-0-8173-5535-7)
Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom. Harvard University Press. 1987. ISBN978-0-674-92098-9. Peter Kolchin.
A Sphinx on the American Land: The Nineteenth-Century South in Comparative Perspective. LSU Press. 2003. ISBN978-0-8071-2866-4.
Helen Saltz Jacobson, ed. (2002). "Foreword". Up from Serfdom: My Childhood and Youth in Russia, 1804-1824. Translator Helen Saltz Jacobson. Yale University Press. ISBN978-0-300-09716-0.
Frank McGlynn; Seymour Drescher, eds. (1992). "The Tragic Era? Interpreting Southern Reconstruction in Comparative Perspective". The Meaning of freedom: economics, politics, and culture after slavery. University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN978-0-8229-5479-8.
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^ ab"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.
^"Columbia College Today". www.college.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2022-06-01.
^. www.udel.edu. Archived from the original on 2006-06-03.
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