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Professor Sean Kelley

Professor
School of Philosophical, Historical, and Interdisciplinary Studies
Professor Sean Kelley
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  • Location

    5B.127, Colchester Campus

  • Academic support hours

    On research leave Autumn 2024 and Spring 2025. Please contact via email.

Biography

I am a historian of Atlantic slavery and the transatlantic slave trade. My most recent book, American Slavers: Merchants, Mariners, and the Transatlantic Commerce in Captives, 1644-1865 (Yale University Press, 2023), examines American involvement in the transatlantic slave trade over two centuries. I have been involved in the Freedom Narratives Project, a collaborative effort by historians on four continents to collect, transcribe, and publish the autobiographical testimonies of Africans from the era of the slave trade. I was also the UK Principal Investigator for the Documenting Africans in Transatlantic Slavery (DATAS) Project, funded by the NWO and ESRC, which brought together scholars from four continents to recover materials on enslaved Africans and to build a biographical database. I welcome inquiries from prospective M.A. and Ph.D. students who are interested in studying Atlantic slavery, the transatlantic slave trade, and early American history.

Qualifications

  • Ph.D. University of Texas