Natasha Henry is president of the Ontario Black History Society, and the author of several titles, including Emancipation Day: Celebrating Freedom in Canada, and Talking About Freedom: Celebrating Emancipation Day in Canada, among others. She is also the steward of a new research project entitled “One Too Many” - a

Graham Hodges is professor of History and Africana & Latin American Studies at Colgate University. He is the author of several titles, including Black New Jersey from Rutgers University Press, The Marion Thompson Wright Reader from Rutgers Press, Pretends to Be Free from Routledge Press, Slavery, Freedom, and Culture among

Warren Milteer is Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and the author of North Carolina’s Free People of Color, 1715-1885 (LSU Press, 2020), and his most recent work, Beyond Slavery’s Shadow: Free People of Color in the South (UNC Press, 2021). In

She is making waves and making a difference. Get to know Neo Griot, Kavon Ward, in this special edition of RECOLLECT. Never forget. Never, ever forget...who we are.

Timothy Walker is professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, and the editor of Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad. Published by University of Massachusetts Press, Sailing to Freedom makes the case that a high percentage of successful slave escapes were achieved by using coastal

Kevin Dawson is Associate Professor of History at the University of California at Merced, and the author of Undercurrents of Power/Aquatic Culture in the African Diaspora. Published by Penn Press, it is the definitive study of traditional West African relationships with water, oceans, rivers, and lakes. As Dawson reveals,

Karen Cook Bell is Associate Professor of History at Boowey State University, with an expertise in slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and women’s history. She is the author of Claiming Freedom: Race, Kinship, and Land in Nineteenth-Century Georgia, and her most recent work, Running from Bondage: Enslaved Women

Peniel Joseph is the foremost scholar of the Black Power movement, and the founding Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of the award-winning Waiting ’Til the Midnight Hour/A Narrative History of Black Power