Andrew J. Torget founded and directed the project as a graduate student at the University of Virginia, before graduating with his Ph.D. in history in 2009. Today he is Professor of History at the University of North Texas, where he holds the University Distinguished Teaching Professorship. The author or editor of numerous books, his monograph Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850 (University of North Carolina Press, 2015) won twelve book prizes and awards and was hailed by Texas Monthly as “the most nuanced and authoritative rewriting of Texas's origin myth to date.” The Texas Slavery Project served as a key point of research for Seeds of Empire by examining the movements of American slaveholders and enslaved people into the Texas borderlands.

Project Staff:

• Dave Zimring served as the head research assistant on the project during the summer and fall of 2007, transcribing primary sources and transforming them into Extensible Markup Language (XML). Dave is a Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of Virginia, where he is completing his dissertation on Northerners who fought for the Confederacy.
• Bill Ferster developed the HistoryBrowser, the interface that serves the project's dynamic maps. Bill F. is head of technical development at the Virginia Center for Digital History.
• Bill Covert provided the graphical design of the project's website. Bill C. is the senior programmer at the Virginia Center for Digital History.
• Bill Hunt programmed the scripting for the project's database searching interface. Bill H. is a senior programmer at Category 4 in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Project Sponsors:

The Summerlee Foundation of Dallas, Texas, provided generous financial support for the development of the project.	The Virginia Center for Digital History provided crucial programming, logistical and developmental support for the project.