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About the Editors John Ernest, the Eberly Family Distinguished Professor of American Literature at West Virginia University, is the author of Resistance and Reformation in Nineteenth-Century African-American Literature (1995), Liberation Historiography: African American Writers and the Challenge of History, 1794-1861 (2004), and Chaotic Justice: Rethinking African American Literary History (2009). His editions of texts by nineteenth-century African American writers include Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom; Or, The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery (2000), William Wells Brown’s The Escape; or, A Leap for Freedom (2001), and Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown (2008). Eric Gardner chairs the English Department at Saginaw Valley State University, where he is also a Professor and Braun Fellow. He is the author of Unexpected Places: Relocating Nineteenth-Century African American Literature and the editor of Jennie Carter: A Black Journalist of the Early West and Major Voices: The Drama of Slavery. ...

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