Until his death in 2018, Ira Berlin was one of the preeminent historians of American slavery. He was the author of Many Thousands Gone, Generations of Captivity, and Slaves Without Masters (The New Press). He...

Barbara J. Fields is a professor of history at Columbia University. She specializes in southern history and 19th-century social history. She is a co-editor (with Ira Berlin, Steven F. Miller, Joseph P. Reidy, and Leslie S. Rowland) of...

Steven F. Miller is a co-editor of the Freedmen and Southern Society Project, a co-editor (with Ira Berlin, Barbara J. Fields, Joseph P. Reidy, and Leslie S. Rowland) of Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and...

Joseph P. Reidy is a professor of history and an associate provost at Howard University. He is a co-editor (with Ira Berlin, Barbara J. Fields, Steven F. Miller, and Leslie S. Rowland) of Free at Last: A Documentary History of...

Leslie S. Rowland is an associate professor of history at the University of Maryland and the director of the Freedmen and Southern Society Project, which is compiling a multivolume documentary history of the transition from slavery to...