Peter Kolchin

Peter Robert Kolchin (June 3, 1943 – January 13, 2025) was an American historian. He specialized in slavery and labor in the American South before and after the Civil War, and in comparisons with Russian serfdom and other forms of labor. Kolchin won the Bancroft Prize in American History and the Avery O. Craven Award for his book ''Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom'' (1987). Provided by Wikipedia