Michael Wayne (historian)

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Michael Wayne is a Canadian historian of the United States at the

University College. As an undergraduate, Wayne studied at the University of Toronto and Amherst College. He received his PhD from Yale University[2] where he studied under C. Vann Woodward
.

Wayne writes primarily about the American South and race relations in the United States. His major works include The Reshaping of Plantation Society: The Natchez District, 1860–1880 dealing, in part, with impact of Sharecropping and intermarriage between the White elite,[3] Death of an Overseer: Reopening a Murder Investigation from the Plantation South, and Imagining Black America. An Old South Morality Play: Reconsidering the Social Underpinnings of the Proslavery Ideology challenged popular views of class structure in the slaveholding South.[4] The Reshaping of Plantation Society won the 1983 Saloutos Book Award of the Agricultural History Society.[5] In The black population of Canada West on the eve of the American Civil War: A reassessment based on the manuscript census of 1861 he disputes the narrative that the typical Black resident of the Canadian West were fugitive slaves.[6]

He also wrote a satirical novel dealing with the follies of academia and the peculiarities of Canadian and American identities; titled Lincoln's Briefs, it has been published by Canadian Scholars' Press.[7][8]

Michael Wayne is the son of Johnny Wayne, who was a member of the Canadian comedy duo Wayne and Shuster.[8]

Nonfiction books

  • The Reshaping of Plantation Society: The Natchez District, 1860–1880[9]
  • Death of an Overseer: Reopening a Murder Investigation from the Plantation South[10]
  • Imagining Black America. An Old South Morality Play: Reconsidering the Social Underpinnings of the Proslavery Ideology[11]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Yale University Press Spring & Summer 2014 | PDF | Jack The Ripper | Ten Commandments". Scribd.
  2. ^ "Michael Wayne". University of Toronto. 7 November 2019. Retrieved 22 May 2022.
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  6. ^ Wayne, Michael (November 1, 1995). "The Black Population of Canada West on the Eve of the American Civil War: A Reassessment Based on the Manuscript Census of 1861". Histoire sociale / Social History – via hssh.journals.yorku.ca.
  7. ^ https://www.cspi.org/motion.asp?siteid=100366&lgid=1&menuid=5376&prodid=121595&cat=9869[permanent dead link]
  8. ^ a b "Michael Wayne". 49thshelf.com. Retrieved 22 May 2022.
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