WILLIAM A. MORGAN is a professor of history at Lone Star College. His research has been awarded a Lydia Cabrera Fellowship from the Conference on Latin American History, a Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society, two Mellon/ACLS Faculty Fellowships, and a Folger Research Fellowship. He is the author of A Brief History of Cuba, and his work has appeared in Slavery & Abolition, Colonial Latin American Review, Agricultural History, and The Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History. Morgan lives and writes in Texas.