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- Franklin W. Knight (born 1942) is a Jamaican historian of Latin America and the Caribbean. He is an emeritus professor at Johns Hopkins University, where he was the Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Professor of History from 1993 to 2014 and director of the Centre for Africana Studies.
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Franklin W. Knight (born 1942) is a Jamaican historian of Latin America and the Caribbean. He is an emeritus professor at Johns Hopkins University, where he was the Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Professor of History from 1993 to 2014 and director of the Centre for Africana Studies. [1]
Research Interests: Latin American and Caribbean social and economic history with an emphasis on the late colonial period, American slave systems, and the modern Caribbean. Education: PhD, University of Wisconsin—Madison. History > People > Franklin W. Knight.
A native of Jamaica, Franklin Knight earned his undergraduate degree at the University College of the West Indies–London and his graduate degrees from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. At Johns Hopkins, he became the first black faculty member to secure academic tenure.
FRANKLIN W. KNIGHT, the Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Professor of History, is an expert on the social, political, economic and cultural aspects of Latin America and the Caribbean.
BIOGRAPHY. Stulman Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. Author of Slave Society in Cuba During the Nineteenth Century; The Caribbean; and others. Primary Contributions (1) Cuba, country of the West Indies, the largest single island of the archipelago, and one of the more-influential states of the Caribbean region.
FRANKLIN W. KNIGHT THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION represents the most thorough case study of revolutionary change anywhere in the history of the modern world.' In ten years of sustained internal and international warfare, a colony populated predominantly by plantation slaves overthrew both its colonial status and its economic system and established a
Franklin Knight. Franklin W. Knight joined the faculty of the Johns Hopkins University in 1973. He was appointed the Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Professor of History from 1991 to 2014, when he entered emeritus status.
