
In Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion (1974), Wood showed that South Carolina rice planters during the Colonial Era enslaved Africans specifically from the "Rice Coast" of West Africa because of their expertise in rice cultivation and its technology. At around the same time, a dozen major books were published on American slavery. Published in 1974, it was part of major revisions in the ways historians studied African-American history. Beveridge Award of the American Historical Association. Wood wrote the original version of Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion as his Ph.D. He played lacrosse while an undergraduate at Harvard and later at Oxford. He studied at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and returned to Harvard for a Ph.D. Wood was educated at the Gilman School in Baltimore, Maryland, and Harvard University. The son of Barry Wood and Mary Lee Wood, Peter H. He is a professor at Duke University in North Carolina. It has been described as one of the most influential books on the history of the American South of the past 50 years. Louis, Missouri) is an American historian and author of Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion (1974). Urn:oclc:871941523 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120107071307 Scanner other people named Peter Wood, see Peter Wood (disambiguation).

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