Those who had relatives on the island of Barbados may be interested in my new article with Sam May on the emancipation debates in the Jewish community there in the early 19th century. If you have access to Project Muse you can check out the article with color images @ http://muse.jhu.edu/…/american_jewish…/v099/99.1.leibman.pdf or if not, read the page proofs (open access) at https://www.academia.edu/5837849/_Making_Jews_Race_Gender_and_Identity_in_Barbados_in_the_Age_of_Emancipation._Co-authored_with_Sam_May . The cover image on this issue of AJH comes from our article. The portrait is of Isaac Lopez Brandon, and it is one of the earliest known paintings of a mixed-race Jew from the Americas. Isaac was born a slave in Barbados of mixed African and Sephardic descent. He officially converted in Suriname and then became an important member of Shearith Israel in New York.