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Elaine Owens Author

James T. Campbell, Stanford, California, is Edgar E. Robinson Professor in United States History at Stanford University. His previous books include Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005.

Elaine Owens, Brandon, Mississippi, recently retired as director of the image/sound archives at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, where she helped to collect and curate the Florence Mars Collection.