Sean Kelley
Biographic Data
| ID | 5881813 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sean Kelley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sean |
| FAMILY NAME | Kelley |
| SIGNATURE | KELLEY S |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Enslavement in Upper Guinea during the Era of the Transatlantic Slave Trade: Biographical Perspectives
This article explores the process of enslavement in upper Guinea during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by analyzing over one hundred autobiographical testimonies from the Freedom Narratives collection. Building on work done by P. E. H. Hair in the 1960s, it argues that testimony from people who experienced enslavement are usually the only sources that can provide specific information on the process of enslavement. Information collected f…
Scrambling for Slaves: Captive Sales in Colonial South Carolina
Based in part on previously neglected sales records, this article offers the first detailed analysis of slave sales by the method known as ‘the scramble’. In eighteenth-century South Carolina, the scramble was the preferred sales mechanism for newly arrived Africans, with auction sales generally reserved for slaves already in the colony. Analysis of the sales and other records suggest that the scramble was an economically rational way to sell imp…
The Jury Is Out
Traditional exhibit and tour programming at Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site has rarely made successful connections between the building's substantial historic and architectural legacy and current trends and debates surrounding the American criminal justice system. Artists working at the site have encouraged reflection on broader questions of justice, due process and the role of race and poverty in patterns of incarceration. An interpreti…
Blackbirders and Bozales: African-Born Slaves on the Lower Brazos River of Texas in the Nineteenth Century
Blackbirders and Bozales:African-Born Slaves on the Lower Brazos River of Texas in the Nineteenth Century Sean Kelley (bio) About forty miles south of Houston, in Brazoria County, Texas, down a gravel road and across a fenced pasture, lie the ruins of a large brick building, two hundred feet long, wrapped in a chrysalis of vines, with trees sprouting in and around it. The structure was once the center of Chenango Plantation, the heart of Texas's …
A Texas Peasantry? Black Smallholders in the Texas Sugar Bowl, 1865–1890
This article examines a small community of former slaves in Texas's leading sugar-producing county and argues that local conditions fostered the growth of a Caribbean-style ‘reconstituted peasantry’. Using local sources to compile a database of 79 African American landowners, it traces the postwar decline of the sugar plantations, the process of black land acquisition and the smallholders' strategies for survival. The smallholders' position, howe…
Three Years a Soldier: The Diary and Newspaper Correspondence of Private George Perkins, Sixth New York Independent Battery, 1861-1864
Blackbirders and Bozales: African-Born Slaves on the Lower Brazos River of Texas in the Nineteenth Century
Blackbirders and Bozales:African-Born Slaves on the Lower Brazos River of Texas in the Nineteenth Century Sean Kelley (bio) About forty miles south of Houston, in Brazoria County, Texas, down a gravel road and across a fenced pasture, lie the ruins of a large brick building, two hundred feet long, wrapped in a chrysalis of vines, with trees sprouting in and around it. The structure was once the center of Chenango Plantation, the heart of Texas's …
The Jury Is Out
Traditional exhibit and tour programming at Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site has rarely made successful connections between the building's substantial historic and architectural legacy and current trends and debates surrounding the American criminal justice system. Artists working at the site have encouraged reflection on broader questions of justice, due process and the role of race and poverty in patterns of incarceration. An interpreti…
Scrambling for Slaves: Captive Sales in Colonial South Carolina
Based in part on previously neglected sales records, this article offers the first detailed analysis of slave sales by the method known as ‘the scramble’. In eighteenth-century South Carolina, the scramble was the preferred sales mechanism for newly arrived Africans, with auction sales generally reserved for slaves already in the colony. Analysis of the sales and other records suggest that the scramble was an economically rational way to sell imp…
A Texas Peasantry? Black Smallholders in the Texas Sugar Bowl, 1865–1890
This article examines a small community of former slaves in Texas's leading sugar-producing county and argues that local conditions fostered the growth of a Caribbean-style ‘reconstituted peasantry’. Using local sources to compile a database of 79 African American landowners, it traces the postwar decline of the sugar plantations, the process of black land acquisition and the smallholders' strategies for survival. The smallholders' position, howe…
Three Years a Soldier: The Diary and Newspaper Correspondence of Private George Perkins, Sixth New York Independent Battery, 1861-1864
Blackbirders and Bozales: African-Born Slaves on the Lower Brazos River of Texas in the Nineteenth Century
Blackbirders and Bozales:African-Born Slaves on the Lower Brazos River of Texas in the Nineteenth Century Sean Kelley (bio) About forty miles south of Houston, in Brazoria County, Texas, down a gravel road and across a fenced pasture, lie the ruins of a large brick building, two hundred feet long, wrapped in a chrysalis of vines, with trees sprouting in and around it. The structure was once the center of Chenango Plantation, the heart of Texas's …
The Jury Is Out
Traditional exhibit and tour programming at Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site has rarely made successful connections between the building's substantial historic and architectural legacy and current trends and debates surrounding the American criminal justice system. Artists working at the site have encouraged reflection on broader questions of justice, due process and the role of race and poverty in patterns of incarceration. An interpreti…
Scrambling for Slaves: Captive Sales in Colonial South Carolina
Based in part on previously neglected sales records, this article offers the first detailed analysis of slave sales by the method known as ‘the scramble’. In eighteenth-century South Carolina, the scramble was the preferred sales mechanism for newly arrived Africans, with auction sales generally reserved for slaves already in the colony. Analysis of the sales and other records suggest that the scramble was an economically rational way to sell imp…
Enslavement in Upper Guinea during the Era of the Transatlantic Slave Trade: Biographical Perspectives
This article explores the process of enslavement in upper Guinea during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by analyzing over one hundred autobiographical testimonies from the Freedom Narratives collection. Building on work done by P. E. H. Hair in the 1960s, it argues that testimony from people who experienced enslavement are usually the only sources that can provide specific information on the process of enslavement. Information collected f…
Geography (5 works) · History (5 works) · History (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (2 works) · Cuban History and Society (2 works) · Economic history (2 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (2 works)