page_title: Linda Heywood
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caption_attribution_description: English: Linda Heywood
context_page_description: Linda Marinda Heywood is a professor of African American studies and history at Boston University.
  Heywood has a BA from Brooklyn College and a PhD from Columbia University. In 2008, she shared the Herskovits Prize for her book, Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660.
context_section_description: Linda Marinda Heywood (born 1945) is a professor of African American studies and history at Boston University.
  Heywood has a BA from Brooklyn College and a PhD from Columbia University. In 2008, she shared the Herskovits Prize for her book (co-authored with her husband John Thornton), Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660.
caption: Linda Heywood, 2016
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