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Sean Kelley

(he, him)
Professor of History, University of Essex

I am a historian of New World slavery and the trans-Atlantic slave trade. My most recent book is American Slavers: Merchants, Mariners, and the Transatlantic Commerce in Captives, 1644-1865 (Yale University Press, 2023).

Experience

  • –present
    Professor of History, University of Essex

Education

  • 2000 
    University of Texas at Austin, Ph.D. in History