Charmaine A. Nelson is the Tier I Canada Research Chair in Transatlantic Black Diasporic Art and Community Engagement at NSCAD University (Halifax, Nova Scotia), where she will direct the first-ever institute for the study of Canadian Slavery. Her eighth book, Creolization and Transatlantic Blackness: The Visual and Material Cultures of Slavery, will be published by Routledge/Taylor and Francis in 2021.