Gwendolyn Midlo Hall

American historian

Gwendolyn Midlo Hall (June 27, 1929 – August 29, 2022) was an American historian. She focused on the history of slavery in the Caribbean, Latin America, Louisiana (United States), Africa, and the African Diaspora in the Americas. She wrote Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth Century (1992).

Gwendolyn Midlo Hall
Born
Gwendolyn Charmaine Midlo

(1929-06-27)June 27, 1929
DiedAugust 29, 2022(2022-08-29) (aged 93)
Alma materUniversity of Michigan
OccupationHistorian
Spouses
  • Michael Yuspeh
    (m. 1949; div. 1955)
  • Harry Haywood
    (m. 1956; died 1985)

Hall died on August 29, 2022 in Guanajuato City, Mexico at the age of 93.[1]

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