Peter Kolchin

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|birth_place=New York, U.S. |education=Columbia University (AB)
Johns Hopkins University (PhD) |occupation=Historian |awards=Bancroft Prize (1988) }} Peter Robert Kolchin (born June 3, 1943) is an American historian. He has 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. He won the Bancroft Prize in American History and the Avery O. Craven Award for his book ''Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom'' (1987).