Columbus, Slave Trader
A stark account of the first transatlantic slave ships—and the Taíno people Columbus sent toward a Seville auction.
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History,
seen through
other eyes.
Marc Wilson is a journalist, historian, and entrepreneur who writes deeply researched stories with a special interest in Hispanic history.
Expected late 2026
A historically accurate story of Columbus’s fall from grace.
“To make the nuances of history relevant and interesting to readers.”
The books
Untold histories.
Unforgettable lives.
From fifteenth-century Hispaniola to a small Illinois neighborhood at war, each book begins where the familiar account ends.
Kidnapped by Columbus
Six Taíno captives cross the Atlantic into the turbulent world of Renaissance Spain.
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Hero Street, U.S.A.
The overlooked story of a Mexican American neighborhood and the young men it sent to war.
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About Marc
A reporter’s eye.
A historian’s patience.
For a career spent in newsrooms, Marc Wilson learned to find the human story inside the public record.
A veteran journalist and Associated Press news executive, he brings the discipline of reporting to overlooked episodes of American and Atlantic history.
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