Contributors

2 OHIO VALLEY HISTORY Douglas R. Egerton is professor of history at Le Moyne College. He is the author of seven books, including most recently Year of Meteors: Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the Election that Brought on the Civil War (Bloomsbury, 2010), and The Wars of Reconstruction: The Brief, Violent History of America’s First Progressive Era (Bloomsbury, 2014). Carol Lasser is professor of history and director of the Institute on Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Oberlin College. She has written on women, abolition, and feminisms, and is co-author, with Stacey Robertson, of Antebellum Women: Private, Public, Partisan (Rowman and Littlefield, 2010). She is completing , with Gary Kornblith, Elusive Utopia: A History of Race in Oberlin, Ohio. Edward B. Rugemer is associate professor of history and African American studies at Yale University, and author of The Problem of Emancipation: The Caribbean Roots of the American Civil War (Louisiana State University Press, 2008). Manisha Sinha is professor of Afro-American studies and history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the author of The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina (University of North Carolina Press, 2000), and The Slave’s Cause: Abolition and the Origins of American Democracy (forthcoming Yale University Press, 2015). Stanley Harrold is professor of history at South Carolina State University. He is the author of numerous monographs on the antislavery movement and the Civil War, including Border War: Fighting over Slavery before the Civil War (University of North Carolina, 2010), which won the Southern Historical Association’s 2011 James A. Rawley award. He is working on a comprehensive history of the relationship between American abolitionism, politics, and government between 1700 and 1870. Robert H. Churchill is associate professor of history at the University of Hartford. He is the author of To Shake Their Guns in the Tyrant’s Face: Libertarian PoliticalViolence and the Origins of the Militia Movement (University of Michigan Press, 2009). JamesBrewerStewartis the founder of Historians Against Slavery and JamesWallace Professor of History Emeritus, Macalester College. He has published a dozen books on the history of the American antislavery movement, has appeared in several of the American Experience’s historical documentaries, and is co-editor for Louisiana State University Press of the book series “Abolition, Antislavery, and the Atlantic World.” Contributors ...