Michael Wayne is a Canadian historian of the United States at the University of Toronto.
As an undergraduate, Wayne studied at the University of Toronto and Amherst College.
Wayne writes primarily about the American South and race relations in the United States.
His major works include The Reshaping of Plantation Society: The Natchez District, 1860–1880 dealing, in part, with impact of Sharecropping and intermarriage between the White elite,[3] Death of an Overseer: Reopening a Murder Investigation from the Plantation South, and Imagining Black America.
[5] In The black population of Canada West on the eve of the American Civil War: A reassessment based on the manuscript census of 1861 he disputes the narrative that the typical Black resident of the Canadian West were fugitive slaves.