Kathryn Grover is an independent researcher, writer, and editor in American history. She is the author of Make A Way Somehow: African American Life in a Northern Community (Syracuse University Press, 1994) and The Fugitive's Gibraltar: Escaping Slaves and Abolitionism in New Bedford, Massachusetts (University of Massachusetts Press, 2001). She is editor of New Jersey History, the biannual journal of the New Jersey Historical Society, and has recently completed a Historic Resource Study of the antebellum African American community on the north slope of Beacon Hill for Boston African American National Historic Site.