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Kelley, Sean M and Lovejoy, Paul E (2023) Oldendorp’s “Amina”: Ethnonyms, History, and Identity in the African Diaspora. Journal of Global Slavery, 8 (2-3). pp. 303-330. DOI https://doi.org/10.1163/2405836X-00802015

Kelley, Sean (2021) Massacre at Portudal?: Reexamining the Rainbow, Boston’s First Transatlantic Slave Voyage, 1644-45. Historical Journal of Massachusetts, 42 (1). pp. 82-109.

Kelley, Sean (2020) Enslavement in Upper Guinea during the Era of the Transatlantic Slave Trade: Biographical Perspectives. African Economic History, 48 (1). pp. 46-73. DOI https://doi.org/10.1353/aeh.2020.0002

Kelley, Sean M (2019) New World Slave Traders and the Problem of Trade Goods: Brazil, Barbados, Cuba, and North America in Comparative Perspective. English Historical Review, 134 (567). pp. 302-333. DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cez068

Kelley, Sean M (2018) American Rum, African Consumers, and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. African Economic History, 46 (2). pp. 1-29. DOI https://doi.org/10.1353/aeh.2018.0004

Kelley, SM (2016) Recovering the Stolen Histories of American Slaves. Zocalo Public Square.

Kelley, Sean M and Lovejoy, Henry B (2016) The Origins of the African-Born Population of Antebellum Texas: A Research Note. Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 120 (2). pp. 216-232. DOI https://doi.org/10.1353/swh.2016.0064

Kelley, Sean (2013) Scrambling for Slaves: Captive Sales in Colonial South Carolina. Slavery & Abolition, 34 (1). pp. 1-21. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/0144039x.2012.709040

Kelley, Sean (2008) Blackbirders and Bozales : African-Born Slaves on the Lower Brazos River of Texas in the Nineteenth Century. Civil War History, 54 (4). pp. 406-423. DOI https://doi.org/10.1353/cwh.0.0031

Kelley, Sean (2007) A Texas Peasantry? Black Smallholders in the Texas Sugar Bowl, 1865–1890. Slavery & Abolition, 28 (2). pp. 193-209. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/01440390701428014

Kelley, S (2004) "Mexico in His Head": Slavery and the Texas-Mexico Border, 1810-1860. Journal of Social History, 37 (3). pp. 709-723. DOI https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2004.0010

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Kelley, Sean (2025) A Slaving Port?: The Captive and Conventional Trades in Newport, Rhode Island, 1768-1775. In: The Routledge History of the Modern Maritime World since 1500. Routledge. ISBN 9781138961135. Official URL: http://doi.org/10.4324/9781003606918

Kelley, Sean (2022) Middle and Final Passages in the Atlantic Slave Trade. In: Oxford Research Encyclopedia in American History. Oxford University Press. Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199329175.013...

Kelley, Sean (2019) Precedents: The 'Captured Negroes' of Tortola, 1807-1822. In: Liberated Africans and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1807-1896. Rochester Studies in African History . University of Rochester Press, Rochester, NY (USA). Official URL: https://boydellandbrewer.com/series/rochester-stud... (In Press)

Kelley, Sean (2019) Twelve Years a Slave and the ‘Unthinkability’ of Enslaved Autobiography. In: Biography and History in Film. Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media . Palgrave, pp. 171-189. ISBN 978-3-319-89407-2. Official URL: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14578 (In Press)

Kelley, SM (2015) The Dirty Business of Panyarring and Palaver: Slave Trading on the Upper Guinea Coast in the Eighteenth Century. In: Slavery, Abolition and the Transition to Colonialism in Sierra Leone. Africa World Press, Trenton, N.J., pp. 89-108. ISBN 9781592219834.

Kelley, SM (2011) Slavery and the Texas Border. In: Major Problems in the History of North American Borderlands: Documents and Essays. Wadsworth, pp. 321-329. ISBN 978-0495916925.

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Kelley, Sean M (2023) American Slavers: Merchants, Mariners, and the Transatlantic Commerce in Captives, 1644-1865. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300263596. Official URL: https://yalebooks.co.uk/page/detail/american-slave...

Kelley, Sean M (2016) The Voyage of the Slave Ship Hare: A Journey Into Captivity from Sierra Leone to South Carolina. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 9781469627687. Official URL: https://uncpress.org/book/9781469654768/the-voyage...

Kelley, SM (2010) Los Brazos de Dios: A plantation society in the Texas borderlands, 1821-1865. UNSPECIFIED, pp. 1-283. ISBN 9780807136874.