Last week I reflected on the death of early American historian Richard S. Dunn. Here is the obituary from Legacy.com, published in the Boston Globe:
It is with sadness that we announce the passing of the eminent historian Richard S. Dunn who died on January 24, 2022, at the age of 93. He was the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, Director Emeritus of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, and Co-Executive Officer Emeritus of the American Philosophical Society. He was the author, among other books, of “Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624–1713,” which first appeared in 1972 and was republished in 2000, and most recently “A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia” (2014), a painstaking reconstruction of the individual and collective experiences of three generations of enslaved people on the sugar estates of Mesopotamia in Jamaica and Mount Airy in tidewater Virginia. Professor Dunn passed away in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, due to the aftermath of a COVID infection, surrounded by his family. After 57 years of marriage, Mary Maples Dunn predeceased him in 2017. He is survived by his daughter Rebecca Cofrin Dunn of Winston-Salem, North Carolina; daughter-in-law Andrea Kurtz; granddaughter Cady B. Marie Dunn; daughter Cecilia Elizabeth Dunn of Newton, Massachusetts; son-in-law Lee Campbell; and grandsons Benjamin Dunn Campbell and Frederic David Campbell; as well as a brother-in-law, Frederic Maples S.J.; two sisters-in-law Helen Jean Arthur and Mary Ann Maples; and many beloved nephews and nieces.
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Dr. Dunn’s scholarship on William Penn in conjunction with his wife has greatly enriched my professional life . I am so sad to hear of his passing.
Me too, Mark. He used to say that he was one of the few historians who wrote about New England (John Winthrop), Middle Colonies (Penn), Chesapeake (2 Plantations book), and the West Indies (Sugar and Slaves). A true historian of English America.