Biographies: The Atlantic Slaves Data Network introduction
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Paul Lovejoy, Distinguished Research Professor and Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History at York University, is deeply engaged in international collaborations in researching slavery and is widely connected throughout Africa and the Americas as Director of Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples and head of UNESCO Slave Trade Archives Project. He has collected a large library of digitized historical documents from throughout the Atlantic World.Ibrahima Seck, Assistant Professor of History, Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, Senegal, has researched and published about slavery in Louisiana and helped identify the meanings of African names in the Louisiana Slave Database. Seck speaks Pulaar, Wolof, French, English, and Arabic and is an outstanding lecturer in several languages and first-rate international networker. VI. DISSEMINATION The ASDN datasets, innovative tools, and international collaboration and networking about Atlantic slavery will have broad interest within the halls of the academy and beyond. Scholars from many disciplines and genealogists from each state in the United States and each country in the Americas where slaves were owned and traded are now keenly interested in studying their slave and African-descended populations. Many libraries, both public and private, and historical and genealogy societies will be interested. And many universities, colleges, and schools throughout the United States, the Americas, and beyond will want to use the ASDN for teaching about the institution of slavery that has had a profound impact on the history and culture of the entire Atlantic World. The ASDN website will be publicized widely and scholars working in this field will be invited to contribute datasets, analyze other scholars’ datasets, and share their research findings as well as their suggestions for improving and expanding the project. Messages will be sent through relevant listservs, including several active discussion lists of H-Net, including H-AFRICA, H-West-Africa, H-Afro-America, H-Slavery, and H-Atlantic, announcing the datasets and tools for calculations and mapping as they become available. We also believe that the ASDN’s development of tools for analyzing large and complex datasets of interest in the humanities and users’ experience with the social knowledge networking features will be of interest to the digital humanities field. Results and findings will be circulated and publicized within this community through the centerNet network of digital humanities centers, D-Lib Magazine, and other outlets. The ASDN website will be demonstrated and presented in various ways at annual meetings of relevant professional associations. In Years One and Three, PI Hall and PI Hawthorne will demonstrate the prototype at the largest of the conferences: the African Studies Association and American Historical Association. There will also be opportunities to consult in person with some members of the Advisory Board at these meetings. In Year Two, Hall will present the prototype at Southern Historical Association and Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora, and Hall and Hawthorne will make a presentation at the Organization of American Historians. In Year Three, Hall will demonstrate the prototype at the Association of Caribbean Historians, Caribbean Studies Association, and Association for the Study of African American Life and History. That same year, Hawthorne will make presentations at the Brazilian Studies Association and Canadian African Studies Association, in which two Advisory Board members participate. Dissemination about this important new resource also will occur through media interviews, articles and reviews in scholarly journals. 1 Virginia Meacham Gould’s publications using this research include: Chained to the Rock of Adversity: To be free, Black & Female in the Old South, Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998; “The Parish Identities of Free Creoles of Color in Pensacola and Mobile, 1698-1860,” U.S. Catholic Historian, Vol. 14, No. 3, Parishes and Peoples: Religious and Social Meanings, Part Two (Summer, 1996), pp. 1-10; (with Emily Clark), “The Feminine Face of Afro-Catholicism in New Orleans, 1727-1852,” The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 59, No. 2 (Apr., 2002), pp. 409-448. 2 See fuller description of Paul LaChance’s dataset at: http://nutrias.org/~nopl/inv/indentures/ind-intr.htm. 3 Ancestry.co.uk is providing access to lists of slaves from British colonies, including Slave Registers of former British Colonial Dependencies, 1812-1834 (http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec/Default.aspx?htx=List&dbid=1129&offerid=0:78). 4 The 101 Best Websites of 2010 named by Family Tree Magazine lists other valuable online sources in the “Best Sites for African-American Roots” category. (http://familytreemagazine.com/article/101-Best-Websites-2010) 5 Eltis, David, Philip Morgan, and David Richardson, “AHR Exchange: Black, Brown, or White? Color-Coding American Commercial Rice Cultivation with Slave Labor,” American Historical Review, February 2010, pp 165-171. 6 The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database Codebook: SPSS Expanded Dataset, 2008 Edition (http://slavevoyages.org/downloads/Codebook-SPSS2008.pdf) 7 Discussion Logs of H-Africa messages are available at: http://www.h-net.org/~africa/. 8 Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, ed., Databases for the Study of Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy 1699–1860: Computerized Information from Original Manuscript Sources (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000). 9 See untitled review by Daniel C. Littlefield of “Databases for the Study of Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy, 1699-1860: Information from Original Manuscript Sources” by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall and “The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: A Database on CD-ROM” by David Eltis ; Stephen, D. Behrendt; David Richardson ; Herbert S. Klein, The Journal of American History, Vol. 89, No. 1 (June, 2002), pp. 197-199. 10 http://familytreemagazine.com/article/101-Best-Websites-2010 11 Justine Richardson, Michael Fegan, Mark Kornbluh, Dean Rehberger, and Marsha MacDowell, Bits & Bolts to Bits & Bytes: The Quilt Index On-line Repository and Distributed Archival Management System, Papers, Museums and the Web 2004. (http://www.archimuse.com/mw2004/papers/richardson/richardson.html) 12 An article about the Quilt Index appeared in NEH’s magazine, Humanities, in 2006. Creel, Lori, “A Patchwork of History ,” Humanities, November/December 2006, Volume 27/Number 6. 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