1Lawrence Aje is an Associate Professor of United States history at the University Paul-Valéry, Montpellier 3 who specializes 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 color 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 recent publications include Traces and Memories of Slavery in the Atlantic World (2019) which he co-edited with Nicolas Gachon and The Many Faces of Slavery: New Perspectives on Slave Ownership and Experiences in the Americas which he co-edited with Catherine Armstrong (2019).

2Renée Ater is Associate Professor Emerita at the University of Maryland, where she worked from September 2000 to July 2017. A scholar of nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century art of the United States, her research focuses on monuments, race, national identity, and public space. She is the author of Keith Morrison, volume 5 of The David C. Driskell Series of African American Art (Pomegranate Books, 2005) and Remaking Race and History: The Sculpture of Meta Warrick Fuller (University of California Press, 2011), as well as numerous articles on public monuments. Currently, she is engaged in a digital project entitled Contemporary Monuments to the Slave Past: Race, Memorialization, Public Space, and Civic Engagement, which has received support from the National Endowment for the Humanities-Mellon Foundation, The Getty Research Institute, and the Smithsonian Office of Fellowships.

3Claire Bourhis-Mariotti is an Associate Professor of African American History and the Co-Director of the research unit TransCrit at the University of Paris 8-Paris Lumières in France. Her main research concentrates on nineteenth-century African American history, particularly the emigration and colonization movements, the emergence of Black nationalism, and Black internationalism. She published her first monograph L’Union fait la force: les Noirs américains et Haïti, 1804-1893 with the Presses Universitaires de Rennes in 2016. With Hélène Le Dantec-Lowry and Claire Parfait she co-edited Writing History from the Margins: African Americans and the Quest for Freedom (Routledge) in 2017. She has contributed chapters and essays to such books and journals as In Search of Liberty: African American Internationalism in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World (UGA Press, 2021), Traces and Memories of Slavery in the Atlantic World (Routledge, 2019), the Revue française d’études américaines, and IdeAs/Idées d’Amérique. Her upcoming book, Isaac Mason, une vie d’esclave (Presses Universitaires de Rouen et du Havre, 2021), is the French translation and critical edition of a postbellum slave narrative entitled Life of Isaac Mason as a Slave (1893).

4Nathalie Caron is a Professor at Sorbonne University in the department of Anglophone Studies. Her field of research is religion in the young United States. She is interested in the American Enlightenment, the history of secularism, and the relationship between religion and social movements. She is the author of Thomas Paine contre l’imposture des prêtres (1999). She is co-editor, with Richard Anker, of Transferts du religieux/Religious Transfers, special edition of Revue française d’études américaines, no. 141 (2014), and, with Guillaume Marche, of La Politisation du religieux en modernité (2015). Her recent publications include ‘Friendship, Secrecy, Transatlantic Networks and the Enlightenment: The Jefferson-Barlow’s Translation of Volney’s Ruines (Paris, 1802).’ Mémoires du livre/Studies in Book Culture, Vol. 11, No 1, Automne 2019, and ‘L’indifférence religieuse existe-t-elle aux États-Unis?,’ in Pierre Bréchon et Anne-Laure Zwilling, dir. Indifférence religieuse et athéisme militant ? Penser l’irréligion aujourd’hui (2020). She is currently working on a French scholarly edition of Volney and Thomas Jefferson’s correspondence.

5Nathalie Dessens is a Professor of American history and civilization at the University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès (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, Haïti, regards croisés (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 and finishing a book (co-authored with Virginia Meacham Gould) tentatively entitled The Keys to the Big House: A Creole Plantation in the Atlantic World.

6Samantha Q. de Vera received her BA in Humanities with a minor in English from San Diego State University and her MA in Literature from the University of Delaware. She is currently working toward a PhD in History at the University of California, San Diego, focusing on Black refugees’ experience under Union occupation of the South during the Civil War. She is a consultant for the Colored Conventions Project (CCP), where she has previously served as chair of the exhibits team. She has also edited and created several exhibits for the CCP. Her other publications include ‘The Pharisees of Old New York in Edith Wharton’s Age of Innocence’ in the journal The Explicator and ‘“we the ladies. . . have been deprived of a voice”: Uncovering Black Women’s Lives Through the Colored Conventions Archive’ in 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century. She is currently working on a digital project, racialviolenceandthewest.com

7Thomas Mareite is lecturer at Leiden University, Institute for History (The Netherlands). His research focuses on US and Latin American history in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with an emphasis on slavery, resistance and abolition. His PhD dissertation, Conditional Freedom: Free Soil and Fugitive Slaves from the US South to Mexico’s Northeast, 1803–1861, studied the experiences of enslaved people from the US South who sought refuge in the northeast of Mexico between the Louisiana Purchase and the outbreak of the US Civil War. His work has been published in Slavery & Abolition, Esclavages & Post-Esclavages—Slaveries & Post-Slaveries, and the Journal of Global Slavery.

8Claire Parfait is Professor Emerita of American studies and book history at Université Sorbonne Paris Nord. She was the principal investigator of a Sorbonne Paris Cité project (2013–2016) entitled ‘Writing History from the Margins: The Case of African Americans,’ and co-edited Writing History from the Margins: African Americans and the Quest for Freedom (New York, Routledge, 2016), and an online anthology, Une anthologie d’historiens africains américains, 1855–1965 (SHS/TERRA-HN-éditions, 2018): http://www.shs.terra-hn-editions.org/Collection/?-Historiens-africains-americains-

9She is the editor (with Marie-Jeanne Rossignol) of the ‘Récits d’esclaves’ series published by the Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre: http://purh.univ-rouen.fr/taxonomy/term/37
She is currently working on a monograph on African American historians from the 1830s to the 1930s, from a dual perspective of historiography and book history.

10Dr. Ousmane Power-Greene is Associate Professor of History and Program Director of Africana Studies at Clark. A specialist in African American history, Professor Power-Greene teaches courses for undergraduates and graduate students on American history with a focus on African American internationalism and comparative social and political movements. Professor Power-Greene’s first book, Against Wind and Tide: The African American Struggle against the Colonization Movement (NYU Press 2014), examines black Americans efforts to agitate for equal rights in opposition to the American Colonization Society’s attempt to compel free blacks to leave the United States for Liberia. He is currently completing two research projects. One examines black colonizationists and the other traces African American emigration movements during the nineteenth century. Also, he is co-editor with Ronald Johnson of a collection of essays titled In Search of Liberty: Nineteenth Century African American Internationalism (University of Georgia, 2021). This volume includes original research essays that represent diverse ways of approaching transnational, diasporic, and Atlantic World histories.

11Claudine Raynaud, Professor Emerita of American Studies at the University Paul-Valéry, Montpellier 3, has taught in England (Birmingham and Liverpool) and the United States (Michigan, Northwestern and Oberlin). A Fellow at the Du Bois Institute (Harvard, 2005), she was vice president of the CEAA when Michel Fabre was its president, has headed GRAAT, the nationwide African American Studies Research Group in Tours and a research unit at ITEM/CNRS. She is the author of Toni Morrison: L’Esthétique de la survie (1996) and numerous articles on black autobiography (Hurston, Wright, Baldwin, Lorde), Joyce and feminist theory. Her most recent publications include the translation of Sojourner Truth’s Narrative (PURH, 2016); the edition of The Self as Other in Minority American Life Writing (with Nelly Mok). Newcastle: CSP, 2019; ‘French Baldwin (on Screen): le criminel artiste,’ in Of Latitudes Unknown. James Baldwin’s Radical Imagination. Craven, Dow, and Nakamura eds., Bloomsbury, 2019, 135–153; ‘Breathing Statues, Stone Sermons, Pastoral Trails: Memorializing Truth’ in Traces and Memories of Slavery in the Atlantic World. Aje and Gachon, eds., Routledge, 2019, 249–266; ‘The Uses of Enchantment: Instances of Magic Realism in Morrison’s Later Writing’ in The Palgrave Handbook of Magic Realism in the Twenty-First Century, Perez and Chevalier eds., 2020, 263–280.

12Michaël Roy is Associate Professor of American Studies at Université Paris Nanterre and a Fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France. His research focuses on early African American print culture and the history of US abolitionism. He is the author of Textes fugitifs. Le récit d’esclave au prisme de l’histoire du livre (2017) and De l’antiesclavagisme à l’abolition de l’esclavage. États-Unis, 1776–1865 (2018), the coeditor (with Marie-Jeanne Rossignol and Claire Parfait) of Undoing Slavery: American Abolitionism in Transnational Perspective (1776–1865) (2018), and the editor of Frederick Douglass in Context (2021). His work has appeared in journals such as Slavery & Abolition, MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, and Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America.