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“Isabella's Journey: Texas Plantation Society and the Global Slave System of the 19th Century”
In 1847, a young woman named Isabella sued for her freedom in a Louisiana court. Isabella had been among the 1,000 or so African captives who had been smuggled into Brazoria County, Texas, from Cuba during the 1830s. Using court testimony, the talk traces Isabella’s journey through the various slave systems of the 19th century, revealing the many imperfect connections that linked Texas plantation society with the wider world.
Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology
Speaker: Sean Kelley, professor of History, University of Essex
A Zoom Webinar - Wednesday, March 24, 2021 - Noon CDT
Zoom ID: 993 0883 7803 • Passcode: 959602
About the speaker:
Sean Kelley’s historical interests include new world slavery, the transatlantic slave trade, Africans in the Americas and maritime history. He studied international relations at San Francisco State University before completing a Ph.D. at the University of Texas. Professor Kelley has previously published two books: “The Voyage of the Slave Ship Hare: A Journey into Captivity from Sierra Leone to South Carolina” and “Los Brazos de Dios: A Plantation Society in the Texas Borderlands, 1821–1865.” He is currently working on a third book that looks at American merchants and mariners involved in the transatlantic slave trade.