This page contains links to essays intended to support the novels by supplying background data collected in researching the story, opinion pieces, and other essays written by the author.

WESTERN ESSAYS AND INFORMATION

Were there really cowboys in Illinois?

Why were the Indians rampaging?

Correcting the Unrightable Wrong

Essays on Africa and slavery

Trafficking in Slaves from 1550 to 1870. This essay is a myth-shattering historical portrait of the trafficking.

Philip Curtin published this chart as part of his studies of the trafficking of slaves during the period. The Atlantic Slave Trade by Philip Curtin

SAMPLE SHORT STORIEs

This is a short story about the Author’s uncle who escaped from a Nazis prison camp in World War 2. This story fictionally relates to the story he told me some sixty years ago.