"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: Slavery and the Law in the ProQuest “History Vault”
Slavery and the Law in the ProQuest "History Vault:" "Slavery and the Law features petitions on race, slavery, and free blacks that were submitted to state legislatures and county courthouses between 1775 and 1867. These petitions were collected by Loren Schweninger over a four year period from hundreds of courthouses and historical societies in 10 … Continue reading DIGITAL: Slavery and the Law in the ProQuest “History Vault”
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: Brown on Slavery’s History in the Age of the Database
Vincent Brown discusses slavery and the database at Duke University: 'By responding creatively to the archival challenges presented by the social history of slavery, Harvard Professor Vincent Brown hopes to inspire new conversations about the inheritance of loss and the legacy of struggle. This presentation considers three graphic histories: an animated visualization of Voyages: The … Continue reading DIGITAL: Brown on Slavery’s History in the Age of the Database
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
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