Sean M. Kelley

Areas of Interest
Slavery, the Slave Trade, and the African Diaspora
U.S. History Pre-1865
Atlantic History

Education
B.A. San Francisco State University
M.A., Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin

Publications
Books:
Gone to Affrica: A Rhode Island Slave Ship and the Making of a Diaspora (manuscript in progress)

Los Brazos de Dios: A Plantation Society in the Texas Borderlands, 1821-1865, Louisiana State University Press, forthcoming Fall 2010.

Recent Articles:
“Blackbirders and Bozales: The Illegal Slave Trade to Texas in the 1830s,” Civil War History, December 2008.

“A Texas Peasantry?: Black Smallholders in the Texas Sugar Bowl,” Slavery and Abolition, August 2007.

“‘Mexico in his Head’: Slavery and the Texas Border, 1810-1860,” Journal of Social History, (Spring 2004).

Selected Courses

• Slavery and Emancipation in the U.S.
• Free and Unfree Labor
• Colonial America
• Jacksonian America
• The Civil War and Reconstruction
• Atlantic History
• Baseball in American History
• American Political History
• Historical Methods

Contact Information
Department of History
Hartwick College
Golisano Hall
Oneonta, New York 13820
Phone:  607-431-4584
Fax:  607-431-4351
Email:  kelleys@hartwick.edu