Jeff Forret is professor of history at Lamar University and the author of Race Relations at the Margins: Slaves and Poor Whites in the Antebellum Southern Countryside and Slave against Slave: Plantation Violence in the Old South.Christine E. Sears is associate professor of history at the University of Alabama at Huntsville and the author of American Slaves and African Masters: Algiers and the Western Sahara, 1776–1820.