Elizabeth Donnan (1883-1955) was a historian of the slave trade in America and Professor Emeritus at Wellesley College from 1920 to 1949.
[1] In 1911 she joined the Department of Historical Research at the Carnegie Institution in Washington, where she worked under John Franklin Jameson.
In 1920, Donnan gained a position at Wellesley College, in Massachusetts, where she remained until her retirement in 1949, having become a Professor Emeritus of Economics.
[3] One of her most important publications was a four volume series called Documents Illustrative of the History of the Slave Trade to America, published between 1930 and 1935.
[4] After her retirement, she spent much of her time editing volumes of historical documents, such as the papers of her old colleague Jameson, which she was working on when she died in Washington on 15 March 1955.