Kevin Waite

Kevin Waite is an assistant history professor at Durham University in the United Kingdom. Research for this essay is drawn from his book, West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire.

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  1. What Slavery Looked Like in the West

    Tens of thousands of Indigenous people labored in bondage across the western United States in the 1800s.

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    Artwork depicting a historical photograph of two Native American children overlaid on a blue-toned photograph of the Santa Barbara Mission
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