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The author of Frederick Douglass and the Atlantic World, many book chapters and journal articles, and editor of several volumes of essays, Fionnghuala Sweeney is a leading expert on black abolitionism, Afromodernism, and African American literature. She may be reached at fionnghuala.sweeney [AT] ncl.ac.uk.
Bruce E. Baker is a historian specializing in the American South in the nineteenth century. He is the author and editor of nine books and many journal articles and essays. Raised in upstate South Carolina, Baker now lives in the Scottish Borders. Some of his other recent writing has concerned the cotton trade and waterfront crime in New Orleans. He may be reached at bruce.baker [AT] ncl.ac.uk.
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