Robert L. Paquette is Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History at Hamilton College and co-founder of the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization in Clinton, New York. He has published extensively on the history of slavery and his Sugar is Made with Blood won the Elsa Goveia Prize given by the Association of Caribbean Historians for the best book in Caribbean history.

Mark M. Smith is Carolina Distinguished Professor of History at the University of South Carolina. He is author or editor of a dozen books, including Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South, winner of the Organization of American Historians' Avery O. Craven Award and South Carolina Historical Society's Book of the Year in 1997. He is the current President of the Historical Society.

Douglas Ambrose, Hamilton College, New York
Manuel Barcia, University of Leeds
Stephen Behrendt, University of Wellington, New Zealand
Peter Blanchard, University of Toronto
Trevor Burnard, University of Warwick
Matt D. Childs, University of South Carolina
Peter Coclanis, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Enrico Dal Lago, National University of Ireland, Galway
Kevin Dawson, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Douglas R. Egerton, Le Moyne College, Syracuse, New York
Stanley L. Engerman, University of Rochester
Paul Finkelman, Albany Law School
Jeff Forret, Lamar University, Texas
Allan Gallay, Ohio State University
John Garrigus, University of Texas at Arlington
Eugene D. Genovese, independent scholar
H. J. (Henk) den Heijer, University of Leiden
Kathleen Hilliard, Iowa State University
Stewart R. King, Mount Angel Seminary, Benedict, Oregon
Kenneth F. Kiple, Bowling Green State University
Daniel C. Littlefield, University of South Carolina
Timothy Lockley, University of Warwick
K. Russell Lohse, Penn State University
John J. McCusker, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas
Russell R. Menard, University of Minnesota
Robert L. Paquette, Hamilton College, New York
Francisco Scarano, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Robert W. Slenes, University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil
Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, Fordham University
Mark M. Smith, University of South Carolina
John Stauffer, Harvard University
Richard H. Steckel, Ohio State University and the National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Michael Tadman, University of Liverpool
Theresa Singleton, Syracuse University
Jonathan Daniel Wells, Temple University
Kirsten E. Wood, Florida International University in Miami
Jeffrey Robert Young, Georgia State University