Dr. Jim Campbell is the Edgar E. Robinson Professor of United States History at Stanford University .  Formerly, he served as the chair of Brown’s Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice and is the author of three books, including the critically acclaimed Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa.

Dr. Joseph Inikori is a Professor of History at the University of Rochester and specializes in the economic history of the Atlantic World.  He is the author of several books including, The Atlantic Slave Trade: Effects on Economics, Societies, and Peoples in Africa, the Americas , and Europe and Africans and the Industrial Revolution in England .

Dr. Margaret Newell is an Associate Professor of History at Ohio State University and the author of a number of books and articles on New England industry, economics and society.  She is currently at work on a book entitled "‘The Drove of Adam's Degenerate Seed': Indian Slavery in New England,” which explores the varieties of enslavement and enforced servitude experienced by Native American communities in New England through the early 1800s.

Keith Stokes is the Executive Director if the Newport County Chamber of Commerce.  Keith is a frequent national, state, and local lecturer in community and regional planning, historic preservation, and interpretation with an expertise in early African and Jewish American history.  He works with his wife, Teresa G. Stokes, and together they will be showing us historic Newport and, in particular, God’s Little Acre.

Dr. J. Stanley Lemons is a Professor of History Emeritus at Rhode Island College .  He is the author of sundry books and articles on Rhode Island history, the RI slave trade, and antislavery.  Recently, much of his work has focused on a history of the F irst Baptist Church in America , located on Providence ’s East Side .

Dr. Seth Rockman is an Assistant Professor of History at Brown University . Seth is a specialist in Revolutionary and Early Republic United States history, with a focus on the relationship of slavery and capitalism in American economic and social development.  In 2003, he published Welfare Reform in the Early Republic: A Brief History with Documents with Bedford Books. Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore is now available from Johns Hopkins University Press.

Dr. Margot Minardi is an Assistant Professor of History at Reed College in Oregon .  Her work centers around commemorative practices associated with Northern slavery and she has a forthcoming book on the subject, New England Slaves in Myth and Memory.

Dr. James Oliver Horton is the Benjamin Banneker Professor Emeritus at The George Washington University.  He is also the Historian Emeritus for the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution.  Jim is the author of several critically acclaimed works on African-American history including, In Hope of Liberty : Culture, Protest, and Community Among Northern Free Blacks, 1700-1860, and Slavery and Public History: The Tough Stuff of American Memory and Slavery and The Making of American History, both of which were coauthored with Lois Horton.