Richard Follett is Reader in American History at the University of Sussex, Brighton, England. He writes on the history of slavery and emancipation in the American South. Major publications include, The Sugar Masters: Planters and Slaves in Louisiana's Cane World, 1820-1860 and Slavery's Ghost: The Problem of Freedom in the Age of Emancipation (co-authored with Eric Foner and Walter Johnson). His databases on the American Sugar Economy (1844-1917) are freely accessible at www.sussex.ac.uk/louisianasugar Follett is currently writing two books, Troubled Minds: Slave Revolts in American Memory and with Sven Beckert, Peter Coclanis, and Barbara Hahn, The Global History of Southern Commodities. A full list of publications is avaialble at www.sussex.ac.uk/americanstudies An online video discussing aspects of The Sugar Masters is available at: http://teachinghistory.org/best-practices/examples-of-historical-thinking/23459