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Contributors Trevor Burnard is the author of several books on Atlantic history and on white slave owners on the Chesapeake and in Jamaica. He has written a large number of articles on such things as the history of early Jamaica; gender, whiteness, and slavery in plantation societies; and the character of the planter class in the British Atlantic World. He is Head of the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra is the Alice Drysdale Sheffield Professor of History at the University of Texas–Austin. He is the author of How to Write the History of the New World (Stanford, 2001); Puritan Conquistadors (Stanford, 2006); and Nature, Empire, and Nation (Stanford, 2006). Mariza de Carvalho Soares is Professor Associado of African History and African Diaspora History at Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil. Her book People of Faith: Slavery and African Catholics in Eighteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro (Duke University Press, 2011) received the Roberto Reis Prize from the Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA) in 2012. She has published extensively in Brazil and has directed several collaborative research projects. Matt D. Childs is Associate Professor and Director of the History Center at the University of South Carolina. His publications include The 1812 Aponte Rebellion in Cuba and the Struggle against Atlantic Slavery (2006) and, edited with Toyin Falola, The Yoruba Diaspora in the Atlantic World (2005) and The Changing Worlds of Atlantic Africa: Essays in Honor of Robin Law (2009). Kevin Dawson is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He received his Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina. His Contributors 352 research considers Atlantic history and the African diaspora, specifically slaves’ maritime culture. Roquinaldo Ferreira is Associate Professor of History and African-American and African Studies at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Cross Cultural Exchange in the Atlantic World: Angola and Brazil during the Era of the Slave Trade (Cambridge University Press, 2012). David Geggus is Professor of History at the University of Florida, Gainesville. He is the author of Slavery, War and Revolution (1982), Haitian Revolutionary Studies (2002), and more than a hundred scholarly articles. Most recently, he edited, with Norman Fiering, The World of the Haitian Revolution (2009). Jane Landers is Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of History. She is the author of numerous books, chapters, and articles on Africans in the Atlantic World, the most recent being Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions. She directs a project preserving the oldest records for Africans in Cuba, Brazil, and Colombia (http://www.vanderbilt.edu/esss/index.php). Robin Law is Emeritus Professor of African History, University of Stirling, and Visiting Professor in History, University of Liverpool. He is the author of The Oyo Empire c. 1600–c. 1836 (1977), The Horse in West African History (1980), The Slave Coast of West Africa, 1550–1750 (1991), and Ouidah: The Social History of a West African Slaving “Port,” 1727–1892 (2004). David Northrup (Ph.D., UCLA) was a professor of history at Boston College from 1974 to 2012, specializing in African and world history. His many publications have dealt with sub-Saharan Africa, the Atlantic, and global connections . He is a past president of the World History Association. James Sidbury is the Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor of the Humanities in the Department of History at Rice University. He is a historian of race and slavery in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic. João José Reis is Professor of History at the Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA) in Brazil. He is the author of Slave Rebellion in Brazil: The Muslim Uprising of 1835 in Bahia (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993) and Death Is a Festival: Funeral Rites and Popular Rebellion in Nineteenth-Century Brazil ] Project MUSE (2024-04-26 14:58 GMT) 353 Contributors (University of North Carolina Press, 2003), which earned the 1996 Clarence H. Haring Prize from the American Historical Association and the 1992 Jabuti Prize for Nonfiction from the Brazilian Book Council. James H. Sweet is Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin. He is the author of two prize-winning books, Recreating Africa: Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the African-Portuguese World, 1441–1770 (University of North Carolina Press 2003) and Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World (University of North Carolina Press, 2011). Nicole von Germeten is an Associate Professor of History at Oregon State University . She has published two books...

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