Gwendolyn Mildo Hall (1929-2022)was a prominent historian who scholarly work focused on slavery in the Caribbean, Latin America, Louisiana and the African Diaspora. She is best known for her book, Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth Century (1992). She was married to the prominent Black Communist activist Harry Haywood. She died in Guanajuato City, Mexico. Hall was 93 years old.
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Bio/Obit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwendolyn_Midlo_Hall https://people.com/human-interest/gwendolyn-midlo-hall-dies-at-93-historian-created-a-database-of-enslaved-people/
Her slave data base http://www.ibiblio.org/laslave/
Her books https://lsupress.org/authors/detail/gwendolyn-midlo-hall/
Interviews https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7MhHRXkEJ4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIxq2msJsLQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvJPRRpPNss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpoLcTJV4As
Lecture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmlUQnsYwUM
Her husband, Harry Haywood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Haywood https://www.marxists.org/archive/haywood/index.htmGwendol