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David Eltis is Robert W. Woodruff Professor Emeritus of History, Emory University. His prizewinning books include The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas. David Richardson (1946-2023) was the director of the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation and professor of economic history, University of Hull, England. His final book was Principles and Agents: The British Slave Trade and Its Abolition. Philip Misevich is associate professor of history at St. John's University. He is the author of Abolition and the Transformation of Atlantic Commerce in Southern Sierra Leone, 1790s to 1860s.