Michele K. Gillespie is the author of Free Labor in an Unfree World: White Artisans in Slaveholding Georgia, 1789-1860 and a coeditor of several books, including Neither Lady nor Slave: Working Women of the Old South and The Devil's Lane: Sex and Race in the Early South. She is Kahle Associate Professor of History at Wake Forest University. Randal L. Hall is the author of William Louis Poteat: A Leader of the Progressive-Era South and coeditor of The Southern Albatross: Race and Ethnicity in the American South. He is associate editor of the Journal of Southern History at Rice University.
