Awam Amkpa is an associate professor of drama and director of Africana studies at New York University. He is the author of Theatre and Postcolonial Desires (Routledge) and of numerous articles in edited anthologies and scholarly journals, as well as plays, including Not in My Season of Songs. Dr. Amkpa has directed documentaries, including It’s All About Downtown, and curated he “Real-Life Documentary” film festival in Accra and the photography exhibition “We won’t Budge” on Black Europeans, which has traveled from New York’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture to Florence, Italy.

Jennifer L. Anderson is an assistant professor in the History Department at Stony Brook University (SUNY). She is currently completing a book about the Atlantic mahogany trade, examining its social and environmental impacts in the eighteenth century. An excerpt entitled “Nature’s Currency: The Atlantic Mahogany Trade” in Early American Studies (2004) received the PEASE prize for best article in early American economic history. She has received many awards and fellowships, including the Society of American Historians’ Nevins Prize for Best-Written Dissertation and a Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the American Antiquarian Society. Dr. Anderson also shared an Emmy nomination for research she conducted for Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North, a documentary, written and directed by Katrina Browne, about the New England slave trade.

Peter M. Beattie is an associate professor of history at Michigan State University. He is coeditor of the Luso-Brazilian Review in the areas of history and social science, and he is the author of The Tribute of Blood: Army, Honor, Race and Nation in Brazil 1864–1945. His most recent publication is in the January 2011 volume of Comparative Studies in Society and History: “The Jealous Institution: Male Nubility, Conjugality, Sexuality, and Discipline on the Social Margins of Imperial Brazil.”

Mariana P. Candido is an assistant professor in the Department of History at Princeton University. Candido is the author of articles published in African Economic History, Slavery and Abolition, and edited volumes. She is the author of Fronteras de esclavización: Esclavitud, comercio e identidad en Benguela, 1780–1850 (El Colegio de Mexico Press, 2011) and An African Slaving Port on the Atlantic World: Benguela and its Hinterland (Cambridge University Press,