DIGITAL: The Louverture Project

A wiki-project compiling information on the Haitian Revolution and Toussaint L'Ouverture: "The mission of The Louverture Project is to collect as much information as possible about the Haitian revolution, to construct a narrative which provides context for that information, and to disseminate the collected knowledge as widely as possible." Explore: TLP:Community Portal - TLP

DIGITAL: Aimé Césaire and the Broken Record

A project by Alex Gil charting work on Aimé Césaire: ,"The following enumerative bibliography of critical commentary and scholarship on Aimé Césaire builds on and refines the Aimé Césaire Zotero Group collective bibliography. This bibliography is the largest of its kind in existence today. If you would like to contribute, please join the group and … Continue reading DIGITAL: Aimé Césaire and the Broken Record

AUDIO: Zora Neale Hurston’s Story of the Last Slave Ship Survivor – SoundCloud

With Cheryl Sterling, Deborah Plant, Glory Edim, and Sylviane Diouf: "Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” is one of Zora Neale Hurston’s most important works of non-fiction that has never been published until today. Hurston recorded the story in Alabama in the late 1920s. It's a collection of interviews with a man named … Continue reading AUDIO: Zora Neale Hurston’s Story of the Last Slave Ship Survivor – SoundCloud

DIGITAL: Daut Launches “La Gazette Royale d’Hayti”

Congratulations Marlene L. Daut on the launch of a new digital project - La Gazette Royale d'Hayti! Read more: "The La Gazette Royale project, which I first began to develop in 2014, is designed to gather together and in one place for the first time all of the known issues of the two newspapers published … Continue reading DIGITAL: Daut Launches “La Gazette Royale d’Hayti”

AUDIO: Johnson and Jones on #BlackWomanhood | WYPR

Jessica Marie Johnson and Martha Jones discuss their Black Womanhood course on WYPR: The course is co-taught by Professor Martha S. Jones, the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor, and Professor of History, at Johns Hopkins University Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and Professor Jessica Marie Johnson, Assistant Professor in the Center for Africana … Continue reading AUDIO: Johnson and Jones on #BlackWomanhood | WYPR

SOURCE: Teaching Theresa: A Haytien Tale (1827) | @CommonplaceJrnl

Just Teach One covered Theresa: A Haytien Tale (1827). Edited and introduced by Eric Gardner and Nicole Aljoe. TEI-encoded by Sarah Stanley. With contributions from Joycelyn Moody, Nicole Aljoe, Michael Dean, Adam Kotlarczyk, Brigitte Fielder, Ed White, Katy L. Chiles, Cassander L. Smith, Julie Buckner Armstrong, Britt Rusert, and Michelle Carrigan. Read the rest: http://jtoaa.common-place.org/welcome-to-just-teach-one-african-american/theresa-a-haytien-tale/

DIGITAL: Databases of Runaway Slave Advertisements

A round-up of databases of runaway slave advertisements shared by Jessica Marie Johnson on Twitter. List (with additions from Twitters users) below the fold:https://twitter.com/jmjafrx/status/986632081957670913https://twitter.com/jmjafrx/status/986632332105912320"First: Kudos to @CrystalNEddins who compiled this list of sites collecting runaway ads - On the lives of fugitives: Runaway slave advertisement databases | HASTAC.Thank you for bringing these (several I've used … Continue reading DIGITAL: Databases of Runaway Slave Advertisements

BLOGROLL/SOURCE: Paul Clammer on Twitter on Belley and Free Black Women of Saint-Domingue

Paul Clammer recently tweeted: "V moved by this find, via @ANOM_officiel, of the presence of Jean-Baptiste Belley, once enslaved & later delegate to the French revolutionary National Convention, at funeral of a free black woman in Saint-Domingue in 1788. #Haiti #SlaveryArchive...Two weeks after attending the funeral of 70yr old Elizabeth Angelique, Belley returns for the … Continue reading BLOGROLL/SOURCE: Paul Clammer on Twitter on Belley and Free Black Women of Saint-Domingue