Rhondda Robinson ThomasRhondda Robinson Thomas is the Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature at Clemson University specializing in early African American literature. She is the author of Claiming Exodus: A Cultural History of Afro-Atlantic Identity, 1770-1903 (2013). Her esays have appeared in African American Review, American Literary History, and the Oxford Handbook of the African American Slave Narrative. She is a member of the Society of Early Americanists. Read More Read Less