Vincent Carretta is a professor of English at the University of Maryland. He is the author or editor of more than ten books, including scholarly editions of the writings of Olaudah Equiano, Phillis Wheatley, Ignatius Sancho, and Ottobah Cugoano. His most recent books are" Equiano, the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man", winner of the Annibel Jenkins Prize, and "The Life and Letters of Philip Quaque, the First African Anglican Missionary", coedited with Ty M. Reese (both Georgia).