( 1987). He edited Reading Black, Reading Feminist: A Critical Anthology
( 1990), The Classic Slave Narratives ( 1987), "Race," Writing, and Difference
( 1986), and Black Literature and Literary Theory ( 1984). With Charles T. Davis
he coedited The Slave's Narrative ( 1985), with K. A. Appiah the
Amistad Literary Series, with Nellie McKay the Norton Anthology of African
American Literature ( 1997). He is also general editor of the Schomburg
Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers.

CARL PEDERSEN is associate professor of American Studies at Odense
University, Denmark and the conference secretary of the Collegium for
African American Research. He has been a research fellow at the Schom-
burg Center for Research in Black Culture ( 1993) and the W.E.B. Du Bois
Institute for Afro-American Research ( 1996). He has coedited Voices from
the African American Experience ( 1995; with Fran Hopenwasser) and Map-
ping African America ( 1999; with Maria Diedrich and Justine Tally). His
essay "America's Others: The Uses of the Black Underclass and the New
Immigrants" was published in Social and Secure ( 1996), edited by Hans Bak
at al., and "Sea Change: The Middle Passage and the Transatlantic
Imagination" in The Black Columbiad ( 1994), edited by Maria Diedrich and
Werner Sollors.

STEPHEN D. BEHRENDT is currently a research associate at the Du
Bois Institute, Harvard University. He received his PhD in History at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1993. His thesis was entitled "The
British Slave Trade, 1785-1807: Volume, Profitability and Mortality." He
is author of several articles on the transatlantic slave trade, which have
appeared in History in Africa, Slavery and Abolition, and other journals.

JESÝS BENITO and ANA MANZANAS teach American and English
literature at the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. Apart from a
number of articles on African American literature which have appeared
in different journals, they have written a book on James Baldwin and
Toni Morrison, entitled La estética del recuerdo: La narrativa de James Bald-
win y Toni Morrison ( 1994). They have also coedited translations into
Spanish of a selection of Olaudah Equiano The Interesting Narrative of
the Life of Olaudah Equiano ( 1994), W. E.B. Du Bois The Souls of Black Folk
( 1995), and Martin Luther King Sermons and Speeches ( 1997).

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