David Badger, Collector, Foreword
David Badger is a prominent collector of 18th and 19th century coquilla nut snuff boxes and bottles, having assemble over the past fifty years the largest and most extensive collection of its kind in the world. He also collects snuff boxes in the shape of shoes of the same period, Hester Bateman silver, and American decorative arts. He is a retired executive of Mars, Incorporated, a world leader in food manufacturing and marketing. He has lived in London, England, Vienna, Austria and Hong Kong and currently resides in Tokyo, Japan and McLean, Virginia, USA. He is a graduate of Princeton University and the Wharton Graduate Division of the University of Pennsylvania and is a member of the Cosmos Club and the Georgetown Club in Washington, DC., and the Tokyo Club and the Tokyo American Club in Tokyo.

Donna S. Sanzone, Editor
Donna S. Sanzone is an editor, researcher, writer, and developer of hundreds of academic and reference books and databases over a 30-year career in publishing. In addition to executive level positions at G.K. Hall, Macmillan, and Grolier Academic Reference, she was Executive Editor for the Harper Collins/Smithsonian Institution joint reference program, working with Smithsonian museums to produce exhibition catalogs and other illustrated works. She has developed and contributed to many award-winning academic publications, multi-volume subject encyclopedias, and databases in the arts and social sciences, including Global History and Culture (a database from M.E. Sharpe) and Encyclopedia of African American Art (now part of Oxford Art Online).

Matthew Francis Rarey, Preface
Matthew Francis Rarey is Associate Professor of African and Black Atlantic Art History at Oberlin College. He holds a Ph.D. in Art History and Latin American Studies, and a Certificate in African Studies, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His areas of expertise include African art in the Atlantic world; enslavement and its visual representations; and arts of Afro-Atlantic religions. He is the author of several articles and academic reviews on the Black Atlantic art history, the visual culture of Brazilian slavery, and Black art in Brazil. His most recent book is Insignificant Things: Amulets and the Art of Survival in the Early Black Atlantic (Duke University Press, 2023).

Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, Introduction
Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw is Class of 1940 Bicentennial Term Professor of History of Art and Graduate Chair, Department of Art History, at the University of Pennsylvania. Her most recent book is The Art of Remembering: Essays on African American Art and History (Duke University Press, 2024). She is also author of Seeing the Unspeakable: The Art of Kara Walker, also published by Duke University Press, and Portraits of a People: Picturing African Americans in the Nineteenth Century.