Jonathan Daniel WellsJONATHAN DANIEL WELLS is a professor of history in the department of Afroamerican and African Studies, the Residential College, and the department of history at the University of Michigan. He is the author of several books, including Women Writersand Journalists in the Nineteenth-Century South and most recently, The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War. Read More Read Less