"The Caribbean Memory Project (CMP) is the Caribbean’s first crowd-sourced cultural heritage research platform. It is designed to activate and engage the memory of cultural heritage among a mixed audience and to aid in counteracting the effects of erasure and forgetting occurring in a growing number of contemporary Caribbean communities. The CMP is motivated by enduring … Continue reading DIGITAL: The Caribbean Memory Project
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Eliza on the Run
New Orleans Daily Picayune, April 23, 1844: https://twitter.com/alondra/status/858994079241310208
DIGITAL: First Blacks in the Americas: The African Presence in The Dominican Republic
New Digital Project: First Blacks in the Americas: "First Blacks in the Americas is a digital educational platform devoted to disseminating sound historical information about the early presence of people of black African ancestry in the first colonial society of the Americas of modern times, the society of the colony named La Española (‘The Spanish … Continue reading DIGITAL: First Blacks in the Americas: The African Presence in The Dominican Republic
DIGITAL: Haiti: An Island Luminous
Digital Project - Haiti: An Island Luminous An Island Luminous is a site to help readers learn about Haiti’s history. Created by historian Adam M. Silvia and hosted online by Digital Library of the Caribbean, An Island Luminous combines rare books, manuscripts, and photos scanned by archives and libraries in Haiti and the United States … Continue reading DIGITAL: Haiti: An Island Luminous
AWARD: Colored Conventions Wins MLA Award
#ADPhD congratulations the Colored Conventions Project which has won the tenth biennial MLA Prize for a Bibliography, Archive, or Digital Project. It will be presented to P. Gabrielle Foreman, Jim Casey, and Sarah Lynn Patterson, from the University of Delaware, on behalf of the Colored Conventions Project team. From the MLA's Prize citation: The Colored … Continue reading AWARD: Colored Conventions Wins MLA Award
DIGITAL: Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery
New Digital Project - Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery, directed by Jillian E. Galle: "The Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery is a Web-based initiative designed to foster inter-site, comparative archaeological research on slavery throughout the Chesapeake, the Carolinas, and the Caribbean. Our goal is to help scholars from different disciplines use archaeological evidence … Continue reading DIGITAL: Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery
DIGITAL: Scuffalong – North Carolina Free People of Color
Lisa Y. Henderson is a researcher -- and descendant -- of North Carolina's free people of color. She runs a genealogy blog at http://www.scuffalong.com which features archival material on her work in history and genealogy: Appie and her twin Mittie Roena Ward were born 19 April 1849 near Stantonsburg, Wilson County, to David G.W. Ward and Sarah … Continue reading DIGITAL: Scuffalong – North Carolina Free People of Color
DIGITAL: Runaway Slaves in Britain
Runaway Slaves in Britain is led by Simon P. Newman, Stephen Mullen, and Nelson Mundell: Historians know relatively little about the enslaved people who lived, worked and died in eighteenth century Britain. This project will create a database of searchable information about those who sought to escape their bondage. Not all of the the people … Continue reading DIGITAL: Runaway Slaves in Britain
DIGITAL: Rankin Maps the Spread of Slavery in United States
A digital project by Bill Rankin visualizes the spread of slavery in the United States in maps. Rankin uses dots, black space (to render county/state lines nearly invisible), and color gradations to mark the changing population of slave and free.
ARTICLES/DIGITAL: Foreman and more on the Colored Conventions Project
A recent issue of Common-Place (16.1, 2015) featured a roundtable on the Colored Conventions Project: Vol. 16 No. 1 Convention Minutes and Unconventional Proceedings Colored Conventions Project Roundtable Jim Casey Vol. 16 No. 1 Liberating History: Reflections on Rights, Rituals and the Colored Conventions Project Colored Conventions Project Roundtable Carol A. Rudisell Vol. 16 … Continue reading ARTICLES/DIGITAL: Foreman and more on the Colored Conventions Project
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