Michael Wayne (historian)

Michael Wayne (born 18 April 1947) is a Canadian historian of the United States known primarily for his work on the American South and race relations in the United States. He is a professor of history emeritus at the University of Toronto and a senior fellow at Toronto's University College.

Early life and education

Wayne was born 18 April 1947.[1] As an undergraduate, he studied at the University of Toronto and Amherst College. He received his PhD from Yale University[2] where he studied under C. Vann Woodward.

Career

Wayne is a professor of history emeritus at the University of Toronto and a senior fellow at Toronto's University College.[3]

Wayne has written 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 the impact of sharecropping and intermarriage between the White elite,[4] Death of an Overseer: Reopening a Murder Investigation from the Plantation South, and Imagining Black America. The Reshaping of Plantation Society won the 1983 Saloutos Book Award of the Agricultural History Society.[5]

His An Old South Morality Play: Reconsidering the Social Underpinnings of the Proslavery Ideology challenged popular views of class structure in the slaveholding South.[6] 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 residents of the Canadian West were fugitive slaves.[7]

Wayne 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.[8][9]

Personal life

Michael Wayne is the son of Johnny Wayne, who was a member of the Canadian comedy duo Wayne and Shuster.[9]

Nonfiction books

  • The Reshaping of Plantation Society: The Natchez District, 1860–1880[10]
  • Death of an Overseer: Reopening a Murder Investigation from the Plantation South[11]
  • Imagining Black America. An Old South Morality Play: Reconsidering the Social Underpinnings of the Proslavery Ideology[12]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Wayne, Michael, 1947-". Library of Congress. 5 August 2025. Retrieved 18 July 2026.
  2. ↑ "Michael Wayne". University of Toronto. 7 November 2019. Retrieved 22 May 2022.
  3. ↑ "Yale University Press Spring & Summer 2014 | PDF | Jack The Ripper | Ten Commandments". Scribd.
  4. ↑ The Reshaping of Plantation Society: The Natchez District, 1860–80. University of Illinois Press. 1990. ISBN 9780252061271.
  5. ↑ Adams, Richard N.; Saul, S. B. (1984). "Editor's Corner". The Business History Review. 58 (2): 268–270. doi:10.1017/S0007680500052806. JSTOR 3115051. S2CID 246480838.
  6. ↑ Wayne, Michael (1990). "An Old South Morality Play: Reconsidering the Social Underpinnings of the Proslavery Ideology". The Journal of American History. 77 (3): 838–863. doi:10.2307/2078988. JSTOR 2078988.
  7. ↑ Wayne, Michael (1 November 1995). "The Black Population of Canada West on the Eve of the American Civil War: A Reassessment Based on the Manuscript Census of 1861". Histoire Sociale/Social History – via hssh.journals.yorku.ca.
  8. ↑ https://www.cspi.org/motion.asp?siteid=100366&lgid=1&menuid=5376&prodid=121595&cat=9869
  9. 1 2 "Michael Wayne". 49thshelf.com. Retrieved 22 May 2022.
  10. ↑ Reviews:
    • Carleton, Mark T. (1983). "Reviewed work: The Reshaping of Plantation Society: The Natchez District, 1860–1880, Michael Wayne". The North Carolina Historical Review. 60 (3): 377–378. JSTOR 23521672.
    • Reinders, Robert C. (1984). "Reviewed work: 'The Reshaping of Plantation Society: The Natchez District, 1860–1880', Michael Wayne". History. 69 (227): 488. JSTOR 24419754.
    • Greenberg, Kenneth S. (1984). "Reviewed work: 'The Reshaping of Plantation Society: The Natchez District, 1860–1880', Michael Wayne". The Journal of Southern History. 50 (1): 129–131. doi:10.2307/2208749. JSTOR 2208749.
    • Holley, Donald (1984). "Reviewed work: 'Good Faithful Labor: From Slavery to Sharecropping in Natchez District, 1860–1890', Ronald L. F. Davis; Patronage and Poverty in the Tobacco South: Louisa County, Virginia, 1860–1900, Crandall A. Shiflett; the Reshaping of Plantation Society: The Natchez District, 1860–1880, Michael Wayne". The American Historical Review. 89 (2): 521–523. doi:10.2307/1862715. JSTOR 1862715.
    • Wright, Gavin (1984). "Rethinking the Postbellum Southern Political Economy: A Review Essay". The Business History Review. 58 (3): 409–416. doi:10.2307/3114555. JSTOR 3114555. S2CID 246480682.
    • Barney, William L. (1984). "Reviewed work: 'Patronage and Poverty in the Tobacco South: Louisa County, Virginia, 1860–1900', Crandall A. Shifflett; the Reshaping of Plantation Society: The Natchez District, 1860–1880, Michael Wayne". The Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 15 (1): 165–168. doi:10.2307/203614. JSTOR 203614.
    • Rothstein, Morton (1983). "A Place Frozen in Time". Reviews in American History. 11 (3): 390–393. doi:10.2307/2702471. JSTOR 2702471.
    • Curry, Leonard P. (1984). "Reviewed work: The Reshaping of Plantation Society: The Natchez District, 1860–1880, Michael Wayne". Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association. 25 (3): 332–335. JSTOR 4232369.
    • Mills, Gary B. (1986). "Reviewed work: The Greening of the South: The Recovery of Land and Forest, Thomas D. Clark; Cotton Fields No More: Southern Agriculture 1865–1980, Gilbert C. Fite; the Reshaping of Plantation Society: The Natchez District, 1860-1880, Michael Wayne". The Mississippi Quarterly. 40 (1): 60–64. JSTOR 26475057.
    • Mandle, Jay R. (1983). "Reviewed work: The Reshaping of Plantation Society: The Natchez District, 1860–1880, Michael Wayne". The Journal of American History. 70 (3): 682–683. doi:10.2307/1903540. JSTOR 1903540.
    • Rothstein, Morton (1985). "Reviewed work: The Reshaping of Plantation Society: The Natchez District, 1860–1880, Michael Wayne". Agricultural History. 59 (2): 346–347. JSTOR 3742400.
    • Wright, Gavin (1983). "Reviewed work: The Reshaping of Plantation Society: The Natchez District, I860–1880, Michael Wayne". The Georgia Historical Quarterly. 67 (3): 403–404. JSTOR 40581124.
  11. ↑ Reviews:
    • Hadden, Sally E. (2003). "Reviewed work: Death of an Overseer: Reopening a Murder Investigation from the Plantation South, Michael Wayne". The Journal of Southern History. 69 (2): 425–427. doi:10.2307/30039946. JSTOR 30039946.
    • Crofts, Daniel W. (2002). "Reviewed work: Death of an Overseer: Reopening a Murder Investigation from the Plantation South, Michael Wayne". The Journal of American History. 89 (1): 216–217. doi:10.2307/2700822. JSTOR 2700822.
    • Rousey, Dennis C. (2005). "Reviews of Books:Death of an Overseer: Reopening a Murder Investigation from the Plantation South Michael Wayne". The American Historical Review. 110 (2): 487–488. doi:10.1086/531379.
  12. ↑ Dain, Bruce (2015). "Race V. Class: The Final Battle". Reviews in American History. 43 (4): 613–619. doi:10.1353/rah.2015.0092. JSTOR 43663590. S2CID 147637997.
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