Michael Wayne is a Canadian historian of the United States at the

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. He is a senior fellow at

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. As an undergraduate, Wayne studied at the University of Toronto and

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. He received his PhD from

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where he studied under C. Vann Woodward. Wayne writes primarily about the American South and race relations in the United States. His major works include ''The Reshaping of Plantation Society: The Natchez District, 1860–1880 '' dealing, in part, with impact of

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and intermarriage between the White elite, ''Death of an Overseer: Reopening a Murder Investigation from the Plantation South'', and ''Imagining Black America''. ''An Old South Morality Play: Reconsidering the Social Underpinnings of the Proslavery Ideology '' challenged popular views of class structure in the slaveholding South. ''The Reshaping of Plantation Society'' won the 1983 Saloutos Book Award of the Agricultural History Society. In ''The black population of Canada West on the eve of the American Civil War: A reassessment based on the manuscript census of 1861'' he disputes the narrative that the typical Black resident of the Canadian West were fugitive slaves. He also wrote a satirical novel dealing with the follies of academia and the peculiarities of Canadian and American identities; titled ''Lincoln's Briefs,'' it has been published by Canadian Scholars' Press. Michael Wayne is the son of Johnny Wayne, who was a member of the Canadian comedy duo

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Nonfiction books

*''The Reshaping of Plantation Society: The Natchez District, 1860–1880'' *''Death of an Overseer: Reopening a Murder Investigation from the Plantation South'' *''Imagining Black America. An Old South Morality Play: Reconsidering the Social Underpinnings of the Proslavery Ideology''

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Wayne, Michael Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 21st-century Canadian historians Canadian male non-fiction writers Historians of the United States Academic staff of the University of Toronto Yale University alumni

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