Biography and the Black Atlantic

List of Contributors

contributors James T. Campbell is Edgar E. Robinson Professor in United States History at Stanford University. His first book, Songs of Zion: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and South Africa, received the Carl Sandburg Literary Award for Non-Fiction and the Organization of American Historians Frederick Jackson Turner prize. His book Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787–2005 was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in history. Previously a professor of History at Brown University, Campbell chaired the Brown University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice. Vincent Carretta, Professor of English at the University of Maryland, specializes in eighteenth-century trans-Atlantic historical and literary studies . Author of more than 100 articles and reviews, he has also written and edited eleven books, including Equiano, the African: Biography of a SelfMade Man; The Life and Letters of Philip Quaque, the First African Anglican Missionary, coedited with Ty M. Reese; and Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage. His numerous fellowships include from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the National Humanities Center. Roquinaldo Ferreira is Associate Professor of History at the University of Virginia, specializing in Early Africa, colonial Brazil, and the Atlantic World. He is the author of numerous articles and chapters on the slave trade from Angola as well as the book Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Atlantic World: Angola and Brazil during the Era of the Slave. He has held fellowships from the ACLS and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Jean-Michel Hébrard is Professeur Associé at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and visiting professor at the University of Michigan, as well as a member of the Centre de Recherche sur le Brésil Contemporain and of the Centre International de Recherche sur les Esclavages. He has published Contributors 354 numerous articles and books on the history of writing, particularly in southwest Europe, including Discours sur la lecture, 1880–2000 and, with Rebecca J. Scott, Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation. Martin Klein, Professor Emeritus in the Department of History, University of Toronto, has had a distinguished career in African history, focusing on Francophone West Africa and particularly Senegal, Guinea, and Mali. His many publications include Islam and Imperialism in Senegal: Sine-Saloun, 1847–1914; Women and Slavery in Africa, co-edited with Claire C. Robertson; the edited volume Breaking the Chains: Slavery, Bondage, and Emancipation in Modern Africa and Asia; Slavery and Colonial Rule in French West Africa; and the Historical Dictionary of Slavery and Abolition. The recently inaugurated American Historical Association book prize in African history bears his name. Lloyd S. Kramer is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, specializing in modern European intellectual history, with particular attention to nineteenth-century France. He is the author of Threshold of a New World: Intellectuals and the Exile Experience in Paris, 1830–1848; Lafayette in Two Worlds: Public Cultures and Personal Identities in an Age of Revolutions; and Nationalism in Europe and America: Politics, Cultures, and Identities Since 1775. He is co-editor of Learning History in America: Schools, Cultures and Politics and A Companion to Western Historical Thought, and coauthor , with R. R. Palmer and Joel Colton, of A History of the Modern World (10th edition). Among his many honors, he is a former fellow of the National Humanities Center. Sheryl Kroen is Associate Professor of modern European history at the University of Florida. She has published Politics and Theater: The Crisis of Legitimacy in Restoration France, and articles on nineteenth-century France as well as consumer culture and democracy in Europe. Kroen has received fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the French Government (Chateaubriand Fellowship), the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Humboldt Foundation, and the National Humanities Center. Jane Landers is Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions and Black Society in Spanish Florida; co-author of The Atlantic Contributors 355 World: A History, 1400–1888; editor of Colonial Plantations and Economy in Florida and Against the Odds: Free Blacks in the Slave Societies of the Americas; and co-editor of Slaves, Subjects and Subversives: Blacks in Colonial Latin America and The African American Heritage of Florida. Landers also directs the Eccelsiastical and Secular Sources for Slave Societies Digital Archive project. Among other awards, she has received fellowships...