Franklin Knight

phone: (410) 516-7591  email: fknight@jhu.edu

The Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Professor of History, Knight is a Latin American and Caribbean historian who specializes in the social and economic history of the late colonial period, with particular interest in American slave systems and the modern Caribbean. A Hopkins faculty member since 1973, Knight's major publications include Slave Society in Cuba During the Nineteenth Century (1970); The African Dimension of Latin American Societies (1974); UNESCO General History of the Caribbean, Volume III: The Slave Societies of the Caribbean; and, with Teresita Martinez Vergne, Contemporary Caribbean Cultures and Societies in a Global Context (2005). He holds a BA from the University College of the West Indies-London and a PhD from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

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