| LC control no. | n 50017194 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Curtin, Philip D. |
| See also | Employer: Johns Hopkins University |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1922-05-22 |
| Death date | 2009-06-04 |
| Place of birth | Philadelphia (Pa.) |
| Place of death | West Chester (Pa.) |
| Field of activity | Africa--History Transatlantic slave trade |
| Affiliation | University of Wisconsin--Madison Johns Hopkins University Harvard University Swarthmore College |
| Profession or occupation | Historians History teachers |
| Found in | His Two Jamaicas, 1955. Bohannan, P. Africa and Africans, c1988: t.p. (Philip Curtin) Disease and empire, 1998: CIP t.p. (Philip D. Curtin) data sheet (b. 05-22-22) New York times WWW site, June 16, 2009 (Philip D. Curtin; b. Philip DeArmond Curtin, Philadelphia; d. June 4, 2009, West Chester, Pa., aged 87; wide-ranging and influential historian whose pioneering use of modern statistical methods to determine the extent of the Atlantic slave trade suggested that far fewer slaves were transported from Africa than had previously been thought) Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02 (b. 1922) Wikipedia, May 25, 2022 (Philip Dearmond Curtin; born May 22, 1922 in Philadelphia, died June 4, 2009 in West Chester; professor emeritus of Johns Hopkins University, historian on Africa and the Atlantic slave trade; BA 1948, Swarthmore College; MA 1949 and Ph.D. 1953, Harvard University; taught at Swarthmore 1953-1956, then University of Wisconsin-Madison 1956-1975, establishing with fellow historian Jan Vansina a deparment of African languages and literature as part of one of the first academic African studies programs in the United States; member of the faculty of Johns Hopkins University from 1975 until his death) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_D._Curtin> |
| Associated language | eng |
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