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Daniel B. Domingues da Silva is assistant professor of African history at the University of Missouri, Columbia. He received his Ph.D. from Emory University in 2011. His research focuses on the history of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade between Angola and Brazil. He has received support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. He has published in Slavery and Abolition (2008) and Revista Afro-Ásia (2004), and is currently a consultant for Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database (www.slavevoyages.org) and the African Origins Portal (www.african-origins.org).

Henry B. Lovejoy is completing his Ph.D. thesis on “Oyo Influence on the Transformation of Lucumi Identity in Colonial Cuba” in the Department of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has published “The Transculturation of Yoruba Annual Festivals during the Día de Reyes in Colonial Cuba” in Christopher Innes, Annabel Rutherford and Brigitte Bogar (eds.), Carnival—Theory and Practice (2012) and is a contributing member to The African Origins Project (www.african-origins.org/about). He has been awarded a Post-Doctoral Fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for 2012–2014 at the University of British Columbia.

Paul E. Lovejoy is Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of History, York University, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He holds the Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History and is Director of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples. He has published 28 books, including Transformations in Slavery: A History of Slavery in Africa (3rd ed., 2011). He is past member of the International Scientific Committee of the UNESCO “Slave Route” Project, Secteur du Culture, and has served as Associate Vice-President (Research) at York University from 1986 to 1990 and as a member of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research [End Page 165] Council of Canada from 1990 to 1997, and Vice President in 1996 to 1997. He received a Killam Senior Research Fellowship from the Canada Council in 1994 to 1997 and was Visiting Professor at El Colegio de Mexico in 1999. In 2007, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Stirling, and in 2011 he received the Life Time Achievement Award from the Canadian Association of African Studies and the Teaching Award of the Faculty of Graduate Studies, York University.

Suzanne Schwarz is Professor of History at the University of Worcester, and an Honorary Fellow of the Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation at the University of Hull. She currently holds a Leverhulme Research Fellowship, and her recent research on Sierra Leone examines the origins, destinations and experiences of the first cohorts of Liberated Africans released at Freetown in the period between 1808 and 1819. She is working with Paul Lovejoy on a British Library Endangered Archives project to preserve rare and invaluable sources in the Public Archives of Sierra Leone. Her previous publications include Slave Captain. The Career of James Irving in the Liverpool Slave Trade (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2008) and a volume entitled Liverpool and Transatlantic Slavery (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2007), co-edited with David Richardson and Anthony J. Tibbles.

Filipa Ribeiro da Silva studied History and Portuguese overseas expansion at the New University of Lisbon in Portugal, where she obtained her BA honors (1996) and Master degree (2002). She received her Ph.D. at Leiden University in 2009, where she specialized in seventeenth-century Dutch and Portuguese settlement in western Africa. From 2009 to 2011, she held a Post-Doctoral fellowship at the Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation (WISE), University of Hull, as a member of the Project: Slave Trade, Slavery and Emancipation in European Histories and Identities financed by the European Union 7th Framework Program. Subsequently, she has been a post-doctoral fellow at the International Institute of Social History of the [End Page 166] Netherlands Royal Academy of Sciences, where she is a member of the CLIO-INFRA Project and the Global Collaboratory on the History of Labor Relations. She has published various articles and Dutch and Portuguese in Western Africa: Empires, Merchants, and...

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