Professor of English at Toledo University, Thomas E.Barden is a native Virginian. He is the co-editor of The Travels of Peter Woodhouse: Memoir of an American Pioneer, and he is the author of The Travels of Peter Woodhouse: Memoir of an American Pioneer. Robert K. Perdue, Jr., and Perdue, Jr. Phillips is the author of Weevils in the Wheat: Interviews with Virginia Ex-Slaves (Virginia) and An Annotated Lsiting of Folklore Collected by the Virginia Writers Project (Virginia).