… author of In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863 (University of Chicago Press, 2003); … (University of Georgia Press, 2019); and co-founder and co-leader (from 2003 to 2012) of Emory University’s Transforming … history. · Rachel L. Swarns, Professor of journalism at New York University; contributing writer for The New York …