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9edjh_Xkjehi Armando Cantú Alonzo is an associate professor of history at Texas A&M University. He is the author of Tejano Legacy: Rancheros and Settlers in South Texas, 1734–1900 ( ). Ida Altman is a professor of history at the University of Florida. She is the author of Emigrants and Society ( ), Transatlantic Ties in the Spanish Empire ( ), and numerous works on early modern Spain, Mexico, and early contacts in the Americas. Richmond F. Brown is an associate professor and associate director of the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Florida. He is the author of Juan Fermín de Aycinena, Central American Colonial Entrepreneur (1997) and “Colonial Mobile, 1712–1813” (2001). H. Sophie Burton received her doctoral degree in history from Texas Christian University in 2002. Her book Colonial Natchitoches is to be published by Texas A&M University Press. Amy Turner Bushnell is an Invited Research Scholar at the John Carter Brown Library and adjunct associate professor of history at Brown University . Her books include The King’s Coffer: Proprietors of the Spanish Florida Treasury, 1565–1702 (1981) and Situado and Sabana: Spain’s Support System for the Presidio and Mission Provinces of Florida (1994). Karl Davis is an assistant professor of history at the State University of New York, Oswego. He is the author of “‘Remember Ft. Mims’: Reinterpreting the Origins of the Creek War” (2002). Shannon Lee Dawdy is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago. She received her doctoral degree in anthropology and history from the University of Michigan in 2003. She took a leave from Chicago to assist the state of Louisiana in the aftermath of Katrina. Virginia Meacham Gould is an adjunct professor of history at Tulane University. She received her doctoral degree from Emory University in 1991 and is the author of Chained to the Rock of Adversity (1998) and coauthor of No Cross, No Crown: Black Nuns in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans (2001). She has written numerous works on free women of African descent, women and Catholicism in New Orleans, and Creoles of color. Jane G. Landers is an associate professor of history at Vanderbilt University . She is the author of Black Society in Spanish Florida (1999). She is also the editor of Against the Odds: Free Blacks in the Slave Societies of the Americas (1996) and coeditor of Slaves, Subjects, and Subversives: Blacks in Colonial Latin America (2006), Colonial Plantations and Economy in Florida (2000), and The African American Heritage of Florida (1995). Andrew McMichael is an associate professor of history at Western Kentucky University. His book Reluctant Revolutionaries: The West Florida Borderlands, 1785–1810 is to be published by the University of Georgia Press in 2007. Greg O’Brien is an associate professor of history at the University of Southern Mississippi. His book Choctaws in a Revolutionary Age, 1750–1830 (2002) won the 2003 McLemore Prize from the Mississippi Historical Society. Daniel H. Usner Jr. is a professor of history at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy: The Lower Mississippi Valley before 1783 (1992) and American Indians in the Lower Mississippi Valley: Social and Economic Histories (1998). Contributors [44.202.128.177] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 23:52 GMT) David Wheat is a doctoral candidate at Vanderbilt University, from which he received his master’s degree in 2003. He has presented papers at the Gulf South Historical Association Meeting and the World History Association , among others. Following completion of a Fulbright grant to conduct research in Spain, he is writing a dissertation about Africans in Havana and Cartagena de Indias during the early colonial period. Contributors ...