Zach Sell received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is currently a researcher for Firelight Films and a visiting research scholar at the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice (CSSJ) at Brown University. He was the Ruth J. Simmons Postdoctoral Fellow at CSSJ during the 2017-18 academic year. He is currently finishing his book Capital Through Slavery: U.S. Settler Slavery and the British Imperial World (Forthcoming, University of North Carolina Press). His writing has previously appeared in Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques, International Labor and Working-Class History, and Salvage.