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Deadline: December 31, 2022

Contact: Agatha Beins (abeins@twu.edu)

Dear Colleague,

The latest issue of Contributions to the History of Concepts has published!

Hi David,

Mr Carlson,

I am grateful for the replies both in and out of H-South. Most comments share a common focus on Enslaved.org and the Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation as outlets for database file(s) once completed. I do, however, like what Stephen Berry and others have done with the digital history projects in making the raw files available but also providing extremely useful graphical interfaces, GIS displays, and traditional research write-ups on stand-alone websites.

I have some similar databases being developed in my current project, and I think the best places for them are the newish Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation which publishes peer reviewed data sets https://jsdp.enslaved.org/ and maybe a connection to freedomonthemove.org.

Best,
Adam

Adam Arenson (he/him)
Professor of History
Manhattan College
adam.arenson@manhattan.edu
718-862-7317

The short answer is YES, a database -- particularly a relational database with data focusing on the enslaved drawn from myriad sources -- will be enormously valuable. It will be valuable in ways you can and cannot conceive of now, and that's okay. Simply making information available for other scholars to use is enormously helpful to our shared project of understanding the past more fully and accurately.

I’m seeking a bit of guidance. For the past year or so, I have been working on a project that needs a bit of direction. For the past year or so, I have combed through newspapers and court records in southern Georgia between 1845 and 1865 to extract information on the region’s enslaved population. This began as a side-project/hobby as I worked on other projects. I am a Civil War historian, not a historian of slavery per se.