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American historian

For other people named Peter Wood, see Peter Wood (disambiguation).

Peter Hutchins Wood (born 1943 in St.

Louis, Missouri) is an American historian and author of Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion (1974). It is one of the most influential books on the history of the American South of the past 50 years.^[1] A former professor at Duke University in North Carolina, Dr.

Wood is now an adjunct professor in the History Department at the University of Colorado Boulder, where his wife, Elizabeth A. Fenn is a professor emeritus in the History Department.

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Early life and education

The son of Barry Wood and Mary Lee Wood, Peter H. Wood was educated at the Gilman School in Baltimore, Maryland, and Harvard University. He studied at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and returned to Harvard for a Ph.D.

He played lacrosse while an undergraduate at Harvard and later at Oxford.^[2]