List of Contributors
Lawrence Aje is Associate Professor of United States History at the University Paul-Valry, Montpellier, specializing in African American history. His current research explores the interconnection between law, race and group identity formation, as well as the migration and circulation of free people of colour in the United States and in the Atlantic World during the nineteenth century. He also specializes in historiography and more specifically on the political, methodological, and epistemological stakes involved in the writing of the history of slavery. His publications include La Mmoire de lesclavage: traces mmorielles de lesclavage et des traites dans lespace atlantique (2018), which he co-edited with Nicolas Gachon; Fugitive Slave Narratives and the (Re)presentation of the Self? The Cases of Frederick Douglass and William Brown (2013); and Africa the land of our fathers: The Emigration of Charlestonians to Liberia in the Nineteenth Century, in Pan-Africanism, Citizenship and Identity, edited by Toyin Falola and Kwame Essien (2013).
Catherine Armstrong is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at Loughborough University, having previously spent six years at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has published two monographs on colonial North America, specifically about print culture and representations of the landscape and identity, and is also interested in the boundaries of enslavement in the southern United States. She published an article on the cultural geography of southern slave autonomy in the work of Frederick Law Olmsted in Slavery and Abolition (2017) and is currently researching the ways in which conceptions of global slavery changed in the United States after emancipation. Her work on viewing slavery and abolition with a long chronological lens has been published in The Conversation, and she has also published on the pedagogical methodologies of slavery in the classroom.
Nathalie Dessens is a Professor of American History and Civilization at the University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurs (France). After conducting research on ideology in the antebellum American South, on the myth of the Old South in literature and popular culture, and on the history of the slave societies of the Americas, she has refocused her research on nineteenth-century New Orleans and the consequences of the Haitian Revolution. She has co-edited, with Jean-Pierre le Glaunec, Hati, regards croiss (2007) and La Louisiane au carrefour des cultures (2016). She has authored Myths of the Plantation Society: Slavery in the American South and the West Indies (2003), From Saint-Domingue to New Orleans: Migration and Influences (2007) and Creole City: A Chronicle of Early American New Orleans (2015). After editing French Colonial History, she became vice-president then president of the French Colonial Historical Society. She is currently vice-president of her university, in charge of Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge.
Christa Dierksheide is Assistant Professor of History and a Kinder Professor of Constitutional Democracy at the University of Missouri. She is also Senior Fellow at the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello. Since 2006, she has conceptualized and written exhibitions for Monticello, including The Boisterous Sea of Liberty (2008), Mulberry Row: The Landscape of Slavery (2012) and The Life of Sally Hemings (2018). Christas current research focus is on race, nationalism, and Thomas Jeffersons legacy in early nineteenth-century America. She has published several articles and essays on slavery and imperialism in the American South and British Caribbean and is the author of Amelioration and Empire: Progress and Slavery in the Plantation Americas (2014).
Inge Dornan is Lecturer in American History at Brunel University London, UK. Her research focuses on slavery and abolition in Britain, America and the Caribbean in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and she has published widely on the experiences of enslaved women and women slaveholders. Inge is currently undertaking a research project on the education of enslaved and emancipated children in the British West Indies, which forms the subject of her most recent publication, Book dont feed our children: Nonconformist Missionaries and the British and Foreign School Society in the Development of Elementary Education in the British West Indies Before and After Emancipation, in Slavery and Abolition (March 2019). She is also working on a monograph on women, slavery and emancipation in the Atlantic world.
Seymour Drescher is Distinguished Professor of History emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh. He was also the inaugural Secretary of the European Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. His research focuses on the history of slavery and abolition in a global context, and his works include From Slavery to Freedom: Comparative Studies in the Rise and Fall of Atlantic Slavery (1999), Abolition: A History of Slavery and Abolition (2009) and Pathways from Slavery: British and Colonial Mobilizations in Global Perspective (2018). Drescher is also a co-editor of the Cambridge World History of Slavery, Vol. IV: 18042016 (2017).
Anne-Claire Faucquez is Associate Professor in American Civilization and History at University Paris 8. She is currently preparing the manuscript of her thesis entitled From New-New Netherland to New York: The Birth of a Slavery Society 16241712. Anne-Claire works on New Yorks colonial space and more specifically on the issues of class and race in colonial America by comparing dependent populations of forced labourers (slaves, indentured servants, apprentices, soldiers). She is also interested in the commemoration and representations of slavery in museums, monuments and contemporary art.
Sandrine Ferr-Rode is an Associate Professor in American and Canadian Studies at the University of VersaillesSaint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France. Her research interests focus on the narratives of American slaves who fled to Canada during the age of emancipation. Sandrine has recently completed, with Anne-Laure Tissut as translator, a critical edition in French of Henry Bibbs 1849 The Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, An American Slave, published as Rcit de la vie et des aventures de Henry Bibb, esclave amricain (2018).
Nikita Harwich is Professor of Latin American History and Civilization in the Department of Applied Foreign Languages at the University of Paris Nanterre, France. His research interests focus on Latin American commodity trade, foreign investments in Latin America, as well as on the history of ideas and contemporary Latin American historiography. His recent publications include 1910 en Venezuela: Una renovada alborada?, in Paul-Henri Giraud, Eduardo Ramos-Izquierdo and Miguel Rodrguez (eds), 1910: Mxico entre dos pocas (2014); Barcelona beyond the Seas: A Catalan Enclave in Colonial Venezuela, European Review (2017); Las guerras de Independencia en Ocumare de la Costa. Continuidad y cambios estructurales : 18001830, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de la Historia
