Contesting Slavery

John Craig Hammond is an associate professor of history and assistant director of academic affairs at Penn State New Kensington in suburban Pittsburgh. He is the author and editor of numerous works on slavery and empire in North American history. Most recently, he is co-editor, with Jeffrey Pasley, of volume 1 of A Fire Bell in the Past: The Missouri Crisis at 200 (University of Missouri Press, 2021).

Matthew Mason is professor of history at Brigham Young University.