Katrina Browne is the seventh-generation descendant of Mark Anthony DeWolf, the family's first slave trader. Since 1999, she has been working on a documentary, Traces of the Trade, about her family's connection to slavery. She served as outreach planning coordinator for the film adaptation of Anna Deavere Smith's play about the Los Angeles riots, Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992. She holds a master's degree in theology from the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, Calif.; and a bachelor's degree from Princeton University, where she studied cultural anthropology with a focus on oral history. Web site: www.tracesofthetrade.org/filmmaker.html

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James T. Campbell is an associate professor of American civilization, Africana studies and history at Brown University. His research focuses on African-American history and the wider history of the black Atlantic. He earned his PhD from Stanford University. He is the author of Songs of Zion: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and South Africa (1995), and is chairman of the Brown Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice. Web site: www.brown.edu/Departments/AmCiv/faculty/jcampbell.html; www.brown.edu/slaveryjustice

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J. Stanley Lemons is a professor at Rhode Island College, specializing in the history of American culture. He earned his PhD from the University of Missouri in Columbia. His scholarly interests and publications concern topics such as women's history, African-American history, American popular culture, American religion, social reform and Rhode Island history. He is the author of The Woman Citizen: Social Feminism in the 1920s (1990); The First Baptist Church in America (1988) and First: The First Baptist Church in America (2001). He is coauthor of Rhode Island: The Independent State (1982, 1986), with George Kellner; and The Elect: Rhode Island's Women Legislators, 1922-1990, with Emily Stier Adler. Web site: www.ric.edu/fas/fasdepts/history/jslemons.html

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Richard Andrew Lobban Jr. is a professor of anthropology at Rhode Island College. He earned his PhD from Northwestern University. He is an authority on African culture and history. Since 1970, he has authored and edited numerous books and articles focusing on societies throughout Africa. His forthcoming work includes the book Boundaries and Maps of Africa: From the Past to the Future, with Marie-Christine Aquarone. Web site: www.ric.edu/anthropology/Faculty/lobban.html

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Joanne Pope Melish is an associate professor of history at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, where she teaches American and African-American history. She earned her PhD from Brown University in 1996. Her research focuses on slavery, emancipation and the development of racial ideologies from the Colonial period through Reconstruction, especially in the North. She is the author of Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and `Race' in New England, 1780-1860 (1998). Web site: www.oah.org/activities/lectureship/2005/melish.html; www.as.uky.edu/history/faculty/bios/melish.html

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Keith Stokes is executive director of the Newport Chamber of Commerce. He lectures around the country on communithy and regional planning, historic preservation and early African-American and Jewish-American history. He has been a Newport city councilman and was selected by President Clinton to attend the first-ever White House Conference on Travel and Tourism.

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Theresa Guzman Stokes is designer and producer of colonialcemetery.com, a Web site devoted to slavery in Newport and to God's Little Acre, a burial area on Farewell Street that contains the gravesites of free blacks and slaves dating back to the late 17th century. She is a freelance writer focusing on multicultural topics and history, and is the former editor of Newport Life magazine.

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