Franklin W. Knight is a Jamaican historian of Latin America and the Caribbean. He is an emeritus professor at Johns Hopkins University, where he was the Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Professor of History from 1993 to 2014 and director of the Centre for Africana Studies. He was awarded a Gold Musgrave Medal for literature in 2013.

Common Routes: St. Domingue Louisiana
2006
ISBN 9782850569661
Slave society in Cuba during the nineteenth century
1970
ISBN 9780299057947
The African dimension in Latin American societies
1974
ISBN 9780025642003
The Caribbean
1978
ISBN 9780195054408
The Modern Caribbean
1989
ISBN 9781469617329
Atlantic port cities
1991
ISBN 9780870496578
Race, ethnicity, and class
1996
ISBN 9780918954640
General History of the Caribbean
1997
ISBN 9789231031465
An Account, Much Abbreviated, of the Destruction of the Indies, and Related Texts
2003
ISBN 9780872206267
Contemporary Caribbean cultures and societies in a global context
2005
ISBN 9780807856345
Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography
2016
ISBN 9780190614430