Leslie M. Harris (Editor) LESLIE M. HARRIS is a professor of history at Northwestern University. She is the coeditor, with Ira Berlin, of Slavery in New York and the coeditor, with Daina Ramey Berry, of Slavery and Freedom in Savannah (Georgia).James T. Campbell (Editor) JAMES T. CAMPBELL is the Edgar E. Robinson Professor in U.S. History at Stanford University. He is the author of Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787–2005.Alfred L. Brophy (Editor) ALFRED L. BROPHY is the D. Paul Jones Chairholder in Law at the University of Alabama School of Law in Tuscaloosa. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Reconstructing the Dreamland: The Tulsa Riot of 1921, Race, Reparations, Reconciliation; Reparations: Pro and Con; and University, Court, and Slave: Proslavery Thought in Southern Colleges and Courts and the Coming of Civil War. In 2004 he authored an apology for slavery at the University of Alabama, which was passed by the Faculty Senate and is believed to be the first of its kind in the United States.

Given this volume’s readability and timeliness, I envision the essays helping to bring the history of education nearer to the center of historical study. Well balanced in terms of geographical emphasis, temporal coverage, attention to blacks and whites (and women and men), and linkage of past and present, they contribute to the larger project of developing a new master narrative that reaches beyond the masters. Instructors of history courses on slavery, education, and memory will do well to assign the book. Those who wish to engage students with archives will find guidance. General readers can learn much here about the centrality of slavery to American life and the need to confront its impacts today.

Leslie M. Harris (Editor) LESLIE M. HARRIS is a professor of history at Northwestern University. She is the coeditor, with Ira Berlin, of Slavery in New York and the coeditor, with Daina Ramey Berry, of Slavery and Freedom in Savannah (Georgia).James T. Campbell (Editor) JAMES T. CAMPBELL is the Edgar E. Robinson Professor in U.S. History at Stanford University. He is the author of Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787–2005.Alfred L. Brophy (Editor) ALFRED L. BROPHY is the D. Paul Jones Chairholder in Law at the University of Alabama School of Law in Tuscaloosa. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Reconstructing the Dreamland: The Tulsa Riot of 1921, Race, Reparations, Reconciliation; Reparations: Pro and Con; and University, Court, and Slave: Proslavery Thought in Southern Colleges and Courts and the Coming of Civil War. In 2004 he authored an apology for slavery at the University of Alabama, which was passed by the Faculty Senate and is believed to be the first of its kind in the United States.

Given this volume’s readability and timeliness, I envision the essays helping to bring the history of education nearer to the center of historical study. Well balanced in terms of geographical emphasis, temporal coverage, attention to blacks and whites (and women and men), and linkage of past and present, they contribute to the larger project of developing a new master narrative that reaches beyond the masters. Instructors of history courses on slavery, education, and memory will do well to assign the book. Those who wish to engage students with archives will find guidance. General readers can learn much here about the centrality of slavery to American life and the need to confront its impacts today.

Leslie M. Harris (Editor) LESLIE M. HARRIS is a professor of history at Northwestern University. She is the coeditor, with Ira Berlin, of Slavery in New York and the coeditor, with Daina Ramey Berry, of Slavery and Freedom in Savannah (Georgia).James T. Campbell (Editor) JAMES T. CAMPBELL is the Edgar E. Robinson Professor in U.S. History at Stanford University. He is the author of Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787–2005.Alfred L. Brophy (Editor) ALFRED L. BROPHY is the D. Paul Jones Chairholder in Law at the University of Alabama School of Law in Tuscaloosa. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Reconstructing the Dreamland: The Tulsa Riot of 1921, Race, Reparations, Reconciliation; Reparations: Pro and Con; and University, Court, and Slave: Proslavery Thought in Southern Colleges and Courts and the Coming of Civil War. In 2004 he authored an apology for slavery at the University of Alabama, which was passed by the Faculty Senate and is believed to be the first of its kind in the United States.

Given this volume’s readability and timeliness, I envision the essays helping to bring the history of education nearer to the center of historical study. Well balanced in terms of geographical emphasis, temporal coverage, attention to blacks and whites (and women and men), and linkage of past and present, they contribute to the larger project of developing a new master narrative that reaches beyond the masters. Instructors of history courses on slavery, education, and memory will do well to assign the book. Those who wish to engage students with archives will find guidance. General readers can learn much here about the centrality of slavery to American life and the need to confront its impacts today.