About the Author

James A. McMillin holds a Ph.D. from Duke University. The associate director of Bridwell Library and an associate professor of American religious history at Southern Methodist University, McMillin was a contributor to Warm Ashes: Issues in Southern History at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century, published by the University of South Carolina Press in 2003. He lives in Dallas.

Reviews

"This important book established the large volume of the Atlantic slave trade after the American Revolution and the major role of Southern merchants. Based upon a variety of American sources, it substantially revises conclusions from studies focused mainly on European slave trade voyage documents."--Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, author of Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth Century