Ben Wright teaches history at the University of Texas at Dallas. He is the author of Bonds of Salvation: How Christianity Inspired and Limited American Abolitionism and coeditor of three books: Apocalypse and the Millennium in the American Civil War Era as well as the two-volume The American Yawp: A Massively Collaborative Open U.S. History Textbook, available free online at americanyawp.com. He manages “Teaching United States History,” a blog that explores pedagogy in college-level classrooms and The Abolition Seminar (abolitionseminar.org), a NEH resource designed to help schoolteachers explore the abolitionist movement. His research on antebellum slavery has inspired his advocacy in the modern anti-human-trafficking movement as a board member of Historians Against Slavery and Children at Risk.