In this episode of the Yale University Press podcast, we talk with historian Sean M. Kelley about his new book, American Slavers: Merchants, Mariners, and the Transatlantic Commerce in Captives, 1644-1865.
Using exhaustive archival research, including many collections that have never been used before, Kelley argues that slave trading needs to be seen as integral to the larger story of American slavery.
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