EnslavedOrg

Open access, open source online discovery platform to reconstruct the lives of enslaved persons, enslavers, and slave societies.

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The April 2024 WMQ issue is out now! Make sure check out Eric Herschthal and John L. Brooke's article of “The Plantation Carbon Complex: Slavery and the Origins of Climate Change in the Early Modern British Atlantic.” @EricHerschthal Read more: https://t.co/toZ9qrJvZt

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New in JSDP: Enslaved, Liberated, + Free People of Color in Brazilian Slave Society w/ articles by Cassia Roth, Mary Karasch, Kristin Mann, Urano Andrade, Ian Read, Tayná Baptista Ferreira, Kennah Watts, Joseph Mulhern, Aldair Rodrigues, Bruno Buccalon https://t.co/UTOWeVvk4i

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Read, learn, reflect, and assign for your fall syllabi: https://t.co/gHpBENWy6X

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See more at @gogogomalley and @slavevoyages https://t.co/AByGyQKjyH

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New in the JSDP: special issue on the expanded Intra-American Slave Trade Database at SlaveVoyages. Greg O'Malley and Alex Borucki discuss the creation of the base IASTD, launched in 2019: https://t.co/hN8jhL4A4Y

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See more at @slavevoyages https://t.co/AByGyQKjyH

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Alex Borucki and Spencer Gomez discuss intra-American slave voyages documented in the National Archives of Colombia in "Digitization, Datasets, and (Re)discovering Slaving Voyages in New Granada," JSDP v4, no. 2: https://t.co/1aPJs91Fip

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Intra-American slave trade to Rio de Janeiro was documented primarily in commercial newspapers. Learn more and explore names in @dandomingx @liviatiede et. al., https://t.co/6XktS8Mmbr @slavevoyages

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Black genealogy matters. Check out https://t.co/OqyUHLetNY's expanding collection each quarter as we publish new material. Always growing, always free. https://t.co/xe6l2gHiDT

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"African Baptisms in Havana, Cuba, 1590-1600" data now available -- check out the SSDA's resources at https://t.co/hutwlI0aAR and the data at https://t.co/1VOiBSwNlF

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3 @UMDHistory majors catalogued oral histories by students at Prairie View College with formerly enslaved people. Read about it at https://t.co/nDC5bg5ueO and see the docs Southern U docs @JSTOR

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The Great Dismal Swamp was a site of both labor and refuge for enslaved people in 19th-c. NC. Learn more in @nottaHistorian's https://t.co/M8ohka2N5D (JSDP v.4, no. 2)

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More data from the "Builders and Defenders" (https://t.co/dlbxCm9Rj0) project! @DrAngelaSutton and @_jsfletcher discuss claims for back-pay by women relatives of black Union laborers in Civil War-era Nashville in https://t.co/tA1y36hu8c

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Fairfax Court Slavery Index captures the names of enslaved people in northern VA probate records, including those held in bondage by the Custis family and other VA gentry. Explore at https://t.co/WpgPShDY95 and https://t.co/YM4iImdBpV by H Bollinger, @WalterHawthorne, and team.

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"Louisiana Runaway Slave Advertisements Dataset, 1801-1820" by @PatrickLuck (https://t.co/uc6mYm18pv…) documents freedom-seeking enslaved people in LA. Learn more in "Replanting a Slave Society," https://t.co/rHrdwO2fW4

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Nik Ribianszky's Generations of Freedom -- book, website, and dataset -- explores the lives of free people of color in Natchez. Learn more at https://t.co/vjciq417zk and https://t.co/JynshbVQ3D @NEHgov

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In "Finding Enslaved and Free(d) People in Narratives of Early American Sexual Violence" (JSDP v. 4, no. 2), Sharon Block shares the research that informed *Rape & Sexual Power in Early America* (@OIEAHC, 2006). Learn more at https://t.co/eBqLZ7fDNp.

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Have you checked out the JSDP's first issue of the year yet? Showcasing scholarship on enslaved people in Louisiana, Fairfax County, Nashville, Great Dismal Swamp, and beyond: https://t.co/qn15jirvX2. @NEHgov @MellonFdn @Matrix_MSU

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Humanities faculty, encourage your talented undergrads to apply for a paid mentored summer research opportunity with us! Late applications are still being accepted by email until 3/15! https://t.co/cgAODNJxNc

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Last day to apply! Join us!

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There's still a few hours left to apply: join us for an @NEHgov @NEH_Education Summer Institute for higher ed faculty in data-informed methods for the study of enslaved people, 2 weeks on-site at @Matrix_MSU, 2 weeks online. https://t.co/hm6qo4FTMm