Pengarang: Rebecca Scott

Emily Clark is Clement Chambers Benenson Professor in Colonial American History at Tulane University and the author of five books, including Masterless Mistresses: The New Orleans Ursulines and the Development of a New World Society, 1727–1834 and The Strange History of the American Quadroon: Free Women of Color in the Revolutionary Atlantic World.Ibrahima Thioub is professor of history at the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, Senegal, and associate fellow at the Nantes Institute for Advanced Study in Nantes, France. He founded and leads the Centre Africain de Recherches sur les Traites et les Esclavages (CARTE) at Dakar.Cécile Vidal is directrice d’études at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. She coauthored, with Gilles Havard, Histoire de l’Amérique française and has edited numerous collected works, including Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World. Her latest monograph is Caribbean New Orleans: Empire, Race, and the Making of a Slave Society.