Bøger af Sean M. Kelley

The first telling of the unknown story of America's two-hundred-year history as a slave-trading nation

Historians have long believed that the "frontier" shaped Texas plantation society, but in this detailed examination of Texas's most important plantation region, Sean Kelley asserts that the dominant influence was not the frontier but the Mexican Republic.

From 1754 to 1755, the slave ship Hare completed a journey from Newport, Rhode Island, to Sierra Leone and back to the United States - a journey that transformed more than seventy Africans into commodities, condemning some to death and the rest to a life of bondage in North America. In this engaging narrative, Sean Kelley painstakingly reconstructs this tumultuous voyage.