Morning: Part One

Institute Logistics

Dean Rehberger (Michigan State University)

Morning: Part Two

Participant Introductions

Morning: Part Three

Introduction to Data-Informed Methods in Slavery Studies

Walter Hawthorne (Michigan State University)
Dean Rehberger (Michigan State University)
Daryle Williams (University of California Riverside)

Afternoon

Institute Introductions and Logistics (cont.)

Readings

• Enslaved.org Statement of Ethics, https://enslaved.org/statementofEthics; “Colored Conventions Project Principles,” Colored Conventions Project, https://coloredconventions.org/about/principles/; “Ethical Commitments,” On These Grounds, https://onthesegrounds.org/s/OTG/page/ethical-commitments
• “FAIR Principles,” GO FAIR, https://www.go-fair.org/fair-principles/
• Kim Gallon, “Making a Case for the Black Digital Humanities,” Debates in the Digital Humanities, University of Minnesota Press, 2016, https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/untitled/section/fa10e2e1-0c3d-4519-a958- d823aac989eb

Evening

Juneteenth Dinner

At Beggar's Banquet
Details TBA

Morning

Enslaved.org Recommended Practices

Catherine Foley (Michigan State University)
Alicia Sheill (Michigan State University)

Afternoon: Part One

Data Dictionaries

Catherine Foley (Michigan State University)

Afternoon: Part Two

Project Sharing Round Robin & Final Presentation Guidelines

Readings

• Catherine Foley and Alicia M. Sheill. 2022. “Enslaved.org Recommended Practices for Historical Slavery Data.” https://doi.org/10.25971/5xt9-7x54.
• Hadley Wickham, “Tidy Data.” Journal of Statistical Software 59 no. 10 (2014) 1–23. https://doi.org/10.18637/jss.v059.i10

Morning: Part One

Analyzing & Visualizing Open Data

Dean Rehberger (Michigan State University)
Alicia Sheill (Michigan State University)
Catherine Foley (Michigan State University)

• Jonathan Blaney, "Introduction to the Principles of Linked Open Data," Programming Historian 6 (2017), https://doi.org/10.46430/phen0068.
• Johanna Drucker, “Humanities Approaches to Graphical Display,” Digital Humanities Quarterly 5, no. 1 (March 10, 2011), http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/5/1/000091/000091.html.

Morning: Part Two

Datasetting a Document Exercise

Kristina Poznan (University of Maryland)

Afternoon

Dataset Incubator

Dean Rehberger (Michigan State University)
Walter Hawthorne (Michigan State University)
Kristina Poznan (University of Maryland)

LEADR Lab

Morning

SlaveVoyages, The Intra-American Slave Trade Database

Gregory O’Malley (University of California Santa Cruz)

Afternoon

SlaveVoyages in the Classroom

Readings

• David Elits, "The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database: Origins, Development, Content," Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation 2, no. 3 (2021): 1-8. https://doi.org/10.25971/R9H6-QX59.
• Gregory E. O’Malley, Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807 (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2014), introduction.
• Olaudah Equiano, Interesting Narrative, excerpts

Morning

Understanding Indian Removal and Slavery's Expansion with 19th-Century Runaway Ads

Nakia Parker (Michigan State University)

• John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger, Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), chap. 2.
• Christina Snyder, "Many Removals: Re-evaluating the Arc of Indigenous Dispossession," Journal of the Early Republic 41, no. 3 (Winter 2021): 623-50, https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2021.0078.
• Primary sources: Selected runaway ads from Parker Database (Teams)
• Texas Runaway Slave Project: https://digital.sfasu.edu/digital/collection/RSP

Afternoon

Dataset Incubator

Dean Rehberger (Michigan State University)
Kristina Poznan (University of Maryland)

LEADR Lab (Open until 3:30pm)

Optional outing to Detroit

Details to be announced soon

Morning

Data and the Archive: Fairfax Wills and Deaths and Maranhao Inventories

Walter Hawthorne (Michigan State University)

Afternoon

Dataset Incubator

Dean Rehberger (Michigan State University)

LEADR Lab

Readings

• JSDP Fairfax Data Articles
• Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, “Africa and Africans in the African Diaspora: The Uses of Relational Databases,” American Historical Review 115, no. 1 (February 2010): 136–150, https://www.jstor.org/stable/23302766
• Walter Hawthorne, "Maranhão Inventories Slave Database, 1767-1831," Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation 1, no. 1 (2020): 9-15. https://doi.org/10.25335/wph8-v295.
• Heather Bollinger, Justin Crouch, and Walter Hawthorne, "Revolutionary Probate Records in the Fairfax Court Slavery Index, 1767-1791,” Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation 4, no. 1 (2023): 41-47. https://doi.org/10.25971/m823-ab61.
• Primary sources (Forthcoming)
• Marlene Manoff, “Mapping Archival Silence: technology and the historical record” (2016), https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/mla:1023/

Morning

Legacy Data, Data Access, and the Problem of the Paywall: Ancestry, FamilySearch, and Others

Kristina Poznan (University of Maryland)
Dean Rehberger (Michigan State University)

Afternoon

Dataset Incubator

Kristina Poznan (University of Maryland)
Dean Rehberger (Michigan State University)

LEADR Lab

Readings

• “Celebrating Juneteenth With Data & Resources From ICPSR,” https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/about/cms/3319
• https://www.aaihs.org/beyond-romantic-advertisements-ancestry-com-genealogy-and-white-supremacy/?fbclid=IwAR0zb_pIDCMyoWd5rLLxHTjTiaWBhKv6mYfIWSFQ8vCKkbhT3SnJv9jY8H0
• African American Family History Research Guide, Ancestry.com (available here); “Quick Guide to African American Records,” FamilySearch.org (available here.).

Morning

Institutions and Slavery, Part One

Sharon Leon (Digital Scholar)

Afternoon

Institutions and Slavery, Part Two

Sharon Leon (Digital Scholar)

Readings

• Jessica Marie Johnson, “Markup Bodies: Black [Life] Studies and Slavery [Death] Studies at the Digital Crossroads,” Social Text 36, no. 4 (December 2018): 57–79.
• Sharon M. Leon, “The Peril and Promise of Historians as Data Creators: Perspective, Structure, and the Problem of Representation”, November 24, 2019, http://www.6floors.org/bracket/2019/11/24/the-peril-and-promise-of-historians-as-data-creators-perspective-structure-and-the-problem-of-representation/

Morning

New Directions in Data-informed Study and Critiques

Daryle Williams (University of California Riverside)

Lunch

Group Lunch

Catered from Woody's Oasis

Afternoon

Roundtable Conversation

Readings

• Enslaved.org Controlled Vocabularies, https://docs.enslaved.org/controlledVocabulary/v3/enslavedcontrolledvocabularies-v3.pdf
• Marisa Fuentes, Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016), introduction.
• Katie Rawson and Trevor Muñoz, "Against Cleaning," Debates in the Digital Humanities, University of Minnesota Press, 2019, https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/untitled-f2acf72c-a469-49d8-be35-67f9ac1e3a60/section/07154de9-4903-428e-9c61-7a92a6f22e51
• Frederick Gibbs, "New Forms of History: Critiquing Data and its Representations," https://www.oah.org/tah/issues/2016/february/new-forms-of-history-critiquing-data-and-its-representations/

Morning

Public Dissemination and Digital Scholarly Communication

Daryle Williams (University of California Riverside)
Marisol Fila (University of Michigan)

Readings

• Digital links forthcoming

Afternoon

Dataset Incubator

Dean Rehberger (Michigan State University)
Walter Hawthorne (Michigan State University)

LEADR Lab

9am-12pm ET

Part One

Teaching with Data Sources

Molly Mitchell (University of New Orleans)
Walter Hawthorne (Michigan State University)

Part Two

Pedagogy Breakout Sessions

Readings

• https://app.freedomonthemove.org/
• https://slate.com/human-interest/2022/02/teaching-slavery-schools-kids-emotional-freedom-on-the-move.html

Independent Work Day

9am-12pm ET

Data and Prose Scholarship

Steven Niven (Hutchins Center, Harvard University)
Joshua Piker (William & Mary)

Readings

• Brian C. Neumann, "Black Virginians in Blue: Black Union Soldiers and Sailors from Albemarle County, Virginia," Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation 2, no. 2 (2021): 12-18. https://doi.org/10.25971/pgr6-km31.
• Black Virginians in Blue Stories: Alexander Caine, Peter Churchwell, Jesse Cowles, Frank Lee
• Manuscript material from JSDP-WMQ companion issue (pre-publication circulation, links/attachments forthcoming)