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Robert C. Ritchie, Eliga Gould, Kevin P. McDonald, and Mark G. Hanna, hold a concluding plenary session for the conference. Ritchie is director of research at the Huntington. Gould is Professor and Chair of the History Department at the University of New Hampshire. McDonald is Professor of History at Loyola Marymount University. Hanna is Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego.

Kevin Dawson, discusses, “Enslaved Ship Pilots in the Age of Revolutions”. Dawson is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Merced. This discussion was included in the conference session topic, “Black Seamen and Pilots”.

Charles Foy, discusses, “Black Maritime Labor: The Business of Capturing, Kidnapping, and Condemning Eighteenth-Century Black Mariners”. Blakemore is an Associate Research Fellow at the University of Exeter. This discussion was included in the conference session topic, “Black Seamen and Pilots”.

Niklas Frykman, discusses, “‘We have our own articles now’: A Maritime Declaration of Independence in the Revolutionary Atlantic”. Frykman is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh. This discussion was included in the conference session topic, “Rebellion”.

Richard Blakemore, discusses, “The Meanings of Mutiny in the Seventeenth Century”. Blakemore is an Associate Research Fellow at the University of Exeter. This discussion was included in the conference session topic, “Rebellion”.

Greg O'Malley, discusses, “Slave Stealing in the Caribbean and the Spread of American Slavery”. O'Malley is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. This discussion was included in the conference session topic, “Man Stealing”.

Denver Brunsman, discusses, “Getting Away with Murder: Press Gangs and Customary Violence in the British Atlantic”. Brunsman is Associate Professor of History at George Washington University. This discussion was included in the conference session topic, “Man Stealing”.

Molly A. Warsh, discusses, “Unruly Subjects and Subjective Wealth on Venezuela’s Pearl Coast”. Warsh is Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. This discussion was included in the conference session topic,“Smuggling”.

Willem Klooster, discusses, “The Caribbean Mule Trade: An Illicit Inter-Imperial Business”. Klooster is Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Clark University. This discussion was included in the conference session topic,”Smuggling”.

Carla Gardina Pestana, discusses, “Pirates and the Problem of Authority in the Seventeenth-Century English Atlantic World”. Pestana is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. This discussion was included in the conference session topic, “Pirates and Piracy”.

Guy Chet, discusses, “The Location of Law: Armed Commerce at the Center and Periphery of Empire”. Chet is Professor of History at the University of North Texas. This discussion was included in the conference session topic, “Pirates and Piracy”.

Steve Hindle, Mark G. Hanna, and Kevin P. McDonald welcome participants and attendees to the “Illicit Atlantic Worlds” conference, held at the Huntington Library in January 2015. Hindle is the W. M. Keck Foundation Director of Research at The Huntington. Hanna is Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego. McDonald is Professor of History at Loyola Marymount University.