Slate is similarly displeased that I invited fellow scholars to write individual introductions for each volume of the Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century African-American Women Writers --a series that I conceived and for which I served as general editor.
Slate wanted to have their own staff write the introductions. 
mnli hypothesis: Slate wanted to have their own staff write the introductions.  premise: Slate is similarly displeased that I invited fellow scholars to write individual introductions for each volume of the Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century African-American Women Writers --a series that I conceived and for which I served as general editor.