Hosted by Atlantic Black Box
Atlantic World Connections Speaker Series
Featuring Dr. Sean M. Kelley
Professor in the Department of History, University of Essex
Wednesday, February 28, 2024 at 4:00 pm ET on zoom
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A total of 305,000 enslaved Africans arrived in the New World aboard American vessels over a span of two hundred years as American merchants and mariners sailed to Africa and to the Caribbean to acquire and sell captives. The American-based transatlantic slave trade began in Massachusetts, and the colony/state continued its involvement into the Civil War. In this talk, historian Sean Kelley will chart the changing nature of the Bay Colony/State’s engagement with the transatlantic slave trade over more than two centuries.
About the speaker
Dr. Sean M. Kelley is a historian of New World slavery and the transatlantic slave trade. His 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.
Pr. Kelley has 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. He 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.
Moderated by maritime historian Lincoln Paine
Lincoln Paine is a maritime historian, speaker, and teacher. His books include the award-winning The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World, Down East: An Illustrated History of Maritime Maine, and Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia. Paine has written more than a hundred articles and book reviews and given countless public lectures.
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