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  • Contributors

christopher phillips is the John and Dorothy Hermanies Professor of American History and University Distinguished Research Professor in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at the University of Cincinnati. His most recent book, The Rivers Ran Backward: The Civil War and the Remaking of the American Middle Border (2016), has received several major awards, the 2017 Society of Civil War Historians' Tom Watson Brown Prize for the best book on the history of the Civil War Era among them.

joseph yannielli is a postdoctoral associate at the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition and a lecturer in the Department of History at Yale University.

natalie joy is assistant professor of history at Northern Illinois University. Her book project on Native Americans and the American antislavery movement is under contract with the University of Pennsylvania Press.

sean griffin teaches at Brooklyn College and Queens College in New York City. His current book project examines the ways labor reformers contributed to the development of antislavery politics in the decades before the Civil War.

peter wirzbicki is assistant professor of history at Princeton University.

corey m. brooks is associate professor of history at York College of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Liberty Power: Antislavery Third Parties and the Transformation of American Politics (2016).

manisha sinha is professor and the James L. and Shirley A. Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut. Her most recent book, The Slave's Cause: a History of Abolition (2016), won several major awards, including the 2017 Frederick Douglass Prize. [End Page 355]

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