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A collection of business correspondence written from 1853 to 1861 by Kingsbury to his Connecticut business partner in the Santa Fe mercantile firm of Webb and Kingsbury, yielding a wealth of economic and social information. The letters document prices, trading, and tidbits of news from the Santa Fe trail, including tales of robberies, frontier adventures, and commercial rivalries. The letters are annotated with editorial introductions and the volume contains some illustrations. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

This book establishes Central Africa as the origin of most Africans brought to English and Dutch American colonies in North America, the Caribbean, and South America before 1660. It reveals that Central Africans were frequently possessors of an Atlantic Creole culture and places the movement of slaves and creation of the colonies within an Atlantic historical framework.