# Section III: Chapter 7  
Kristin MANN is an American historian and author renowned for her works on the history of slavery in Africa. In 2002, she was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship and is currently Professor of History at Emory University, Georgia, United States.  
Lisa Earl CASTILLO is a Fellow of the National Humanity Center, USA. She conducted significant research and published Between Memory, Myth and History: Atlantic Voyages in the Rise of an Afro-Brazilian Temple (Bahia, Brazil, 1810-1910). She also wrote "Famílias africanas em tempos do tráfico atlântico: Evidências de reencontros de parentes em cinco cartas de alforria (Bahia, 1818-1830)," which is forthcoming in Afro-Ásia (Salvador, Bahia) and "The Enigma of Candomblé's nação ketu: The Case of Ilê Axé Iyá Nassô Oká" (forthcoming in Yoruba Studies Review). She also prepared a technical report for the Brazilian National Historical and Artistic Heritage Commission (IPHAN).