Ron Soodalter
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Ron Soodalter is a writer, educator, and respected historian. He is the author of Hanging Captain Gordon: The Life and Trial of an American Slave Trader (Atria 2006), a non-fiction account of the only man in U.S. history to be executed for the crime of slave trading, and co-author, with Free the Slaves President Kevin Bales, of The Slave Next Door: Human Trafficking and Slavery in America Today (UC Press, 2009).
Previously, Soodalter was a consultant to the New York State Historical Association, and
was named to the Board of Directors of the 10-state Mountain-Plains
Museum Conference. He currently teaches classes and seminars to all age
groups on the historic and modern-day slave trade and serves on the
Board of Directors of the Abraham Lincoln Institute. He has written
numerous articles for such magazines as Smithsonian, New York Archives, and Civil War Times, and is a featured columnist for America's Civil War.
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