About the Author

Douglas B. Chambers is the former editor of the Southern Quarterly (2005-2011) and associate professor of history at the University of Southern Mississippi. He is the author of Murder at Montpelier: Igbo Africans in Virginia, published by University Press of Mississippi.|Kenneth Watson is the former associate editor of the Southern Quarterly (2005-2011) and associate professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi.|Peggy Whitman Prenshaw is a former editor of the Southern Quarterly (1974-1991), Millsaps College Humanities Scholar-in-Residence, and Fred C. Frey Professor Emerita, Louisiana State University. And, she is the series editor of the Literary Conversations Series (from University Press of Mississippi).