JIM CASEY is assistant professor of African American studies, history, and English at Penn State, where he serves as the managing director of the Center for Black Digital Research. With P. Gabrielle Foreman, he is coeditor of The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century (2021). He currently is writing a book on the rise of editors in the nineteenth- century United States.

BENJAMIN FAGAN is associate professor of English at Auburn University, where he teaches courses in early African American literature and culture. He is the author of The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation (2016), editor of African American Literature in Transition, 1830–1850 (2021), and coeditor, with Kathleen Diffley, of Visions of Glory: The Civil War in Word and Image (2019). He is currently working on a book-length project on the newspapers edited by Frederick Douglass.

BRIGITTE FIELDER is associate professor at the University of Wisconsin– Madison. She is the author of Relative Races: Genealogies of Interracial Kinship in Nineteenth-Century America (2020) and coeditor, with Jonathan Senchyne, of Against a Sharp White Background: Infrastructures of African American Print (2019). She is currently working on a book about racialized human-animal relationships in the long nineteenth century.

ASTON GONZALEZ is associate professor at Salisbury University, where he teaches African American history. His 2020 book, Visualizing Equality: African American Rights and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century, explores how African American activists produced and circulated images to advance numerous campaigns for Black rights.

ROSALYN NARAYAN is an independent scholar whose research explores the antebellum newspaper press of the American South. Her previous work has appeared in Slavery and Abolition, and she is currently writing a monograph on enslavers’ ideologies and the Southern press in the late antebellum period.

TIMOTHY J. WILLIAMS is associate professor of history at the University of Oregon. He is the author of Intellectual Manhood: University, Self, and Society in the Antebellum South (2015) and coeditor, with Evan A. Kutzler, of Prison Pens: Gender, Memory, and Imprisonment in the Writings of Mollie Scollay and Wash Nelson, 1863–1866 (2018).