Peter H. Wood

Black Majority

Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion

A groundbreaking study of two cultures in early America.

"Easily the most thorough and the most penetrating case study yet written of the Afro-American population during the slave period. . . . Fascinating and instructive."-Jack P. Greene

"Mr. Wood has gone beyond any previous study of the history of slavery in the colonial period. . . . He has given us new perspectives not only on slavery but on human relationships in early America."-Edmund S. Morgan, author of American Slavery / American Freedom

Peter H. Wood is professor of American history at Duke University.