Enslaved.org

Explore or reconstruct the lives of individuals who were enslaved, owned slaves, or participated in the historical trade.

Enslaved.org Statement of Ethics

Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade frames the ethics of our project around inclusive and reparative scholarship about historical slavery and responsible stewardship of historical data about enslaved people in digital spaces.

docs.enslaved.org

Of particular interest for data creators and contributors are Enslaved.org's Controlled Vocabularies, Metadata Documentation, and Recommended Practices, a guide on setting up a dataset regarding historical slavery.

Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation

The Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation is a digital academic journal that publishes datasets and accompanying data articles about the lives of enslaved Africans and their descendants from the fifteenth to the early twentieth centuries.

Colored Conventions Project Principles

“Ethical Commitments,” On These Grounds

“FAIR Principles,” GO FAIR

Making a Case for the Black Digital Humanities

Kim Galon, Debates in the Digital Humanities, University of Minnesota Press, 2016

Tidy Data

Hadley Wickham, Journal of Statistical Software 59 no. 10 (2014) 1–23.

Introduction to the Principles of Linked Open Data,

Jonathan Blaney, Programming Historian 6 (2017)

Humanities Approaches to Graphical Display

Johanna Drucker, Digital Humanities Quarterly 005, no. 1 (March 10, 2011): Paragraph 3.

The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database: Origins, Development, Content

David Elits, Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation 2, no. 3 (2021): 1-8.

Africa and Africans in the African Diaspora: The Uses of Relational Databases

Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, American Historical Review 115, no. 1 (February 2010): 136–150

Mapping Archival Silence: technology and the historical record

Marlene Manoff, 2016

The Peril and Promise of Historians as Data Creators: Perspective, Structure, and the Problem of Representation

Sharon M. Leon, November 24, 2019

Against Cleaning

Katie Rawson and Trevor Muñoz, Debates in the Digital Humanities, University of Minnesota Press, 2019

New Forms of History: Critiquing Data and its Representations

Frederick Gibbs

Freedom on the Move

Who was Enslaved at Highland?

Highland Descendants Day 2022