Ana Lucia Araujo, is a historian of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade. Dr. Araujo is currently Professor of History at Howard University in Washington, D.C., and member of the International Scientific Committee of the UNESCO Routes of Enslaved Peoples Projects. Her three more recent books are Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Transnational and Comparative History, The Gift: How Objects of Prestige Shaped the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism, and Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery.