Milton C. Sernett is an American historian, author, and professor at Syracuse University.
His published works in African-American history focus on abolitionism, religion, biographies and the Underground Railroad.
[2] He has spent several years studying the anti-slavery movements in Upstate New York, particularly, the life of Harriet Tubman.
[4] He received his master's degree and Ph.D. in American history from the University of Delaware in 1972.
[2] He served as s research fellow at the WEB Du Bois Institute at Harvard University and a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, in Berlin[5]