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Have you checked out the JSDP's first issue of the year yet? Showcasing scholarship on enslaved people in Louisiana, Fairfax County, Nashville, Great Dismal Swamp, and beyond: jsdp.enslaved.org/fullIssue/volu…. National Endowment for the Humanities Mellon Foundation Matrix: Digital Humanities & Social Sciences

In "Finding Enslaved and Free(d) People in Narratives of Early American Sexual Violence" (JSDP v. 4, no. 2), Sharon Block shares the research that informed *Rape & Sexual Power in Early America* (OIEAHC, 2006). Learn more at jsdp.enslaved.org/fullDataArticl….

Nik Ribianszky's Generations of Freedom -- book, website, and dataset -- explores the lives of free people of color in Natchez. Learn more at jsdp.enslaved.org/fullDataArticl… and generationsoffreedom.com National Endowment for the Humanities

"Louisiana Runaway Slave Advertisements Dataset, 1801-1820" by @PatrickLuck (jsdp.enslaved.org/fullDataArticl……) documents freedom-seeking enslaved people in LA. Learn more in "Replanting a Slave Society," upress.virginia.edu/title/5665/

Fairfax Court Slavery Index captures the names of enslaved people in northern VA probate records, including those held in bondage by the Custis family and other VA gentry. Explore at jsdp.enslaved.org/fullDataArticl… and jsdp.enslaved.org/fullDataArticl… by H Bollinger, @WalterHawthorne, and team.

More data from the "Builders and Defenders" (buildersanddefenders.org) project! Dr. Angela Sutton (She/Her)🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ and Jessica Fletcher discuss claims for back-pay by women relatives of black Union laborers in Civil War-era Nashville in jsdp.enslaved.org/fullDataArticl…

The Great Dismal Swamp was a site of both labor and refuge for enslaved people in 19th-c. NC. Learn more in Katie Hatton's jsdp.enslaved.org/fullDataArticl… (JSDP v.4, no. 2)

3 @UMDHistory majors catalogued oral histories by students at Prairie View College with formerly enslaved people. Read about it at jsdp.enslaved.org/fullDataArticl… and see the docs Southern U docs JSTOR

"African Baptisms in Havana, Cuba, 1590-1600" data now available -- check out the SSDA's resources at slavesocieties.info/transcriptions… and the data at enslaved.org/visualizedata?…

Black genealogy matters. Check out Enslaved.org's expanding collection each quarter as we publish new material. Always growing, always free. familytreemagazine.com/best-genealogy…

Intra-American slave trade to Rio de Janeiro was documented primarily in commercial newspapers. Learn more and explore names in @dandomingx LÍVIA TIEDE et. al., jsdp.enslaved.org/fullDataArticl… Slave Voyages

Read, learn, reflect, and assign for your fall syllabi: jsdp.enslaved.org/fullIssue/volu…

New in JSDP: Enslaved, Liberated, + Free People of Color in Brazilian Slave Society w/ articles by Cassia Roth, Mary Karasch, Kristin Mann, Urano Andrade, Ian Read, Tayná Baptista Ferreira, Kennah Watts, Joseph Mulhern, Aldair Rodrigues, Bruno Buccalon jsdp.enslaved.org/fullIssue/volu…

The April 2024 WMQ issue is out now! Make sure check out Eric Herschthal and John L. Brooke's article of “The Plantation Carbon Complex: Slavery and the Origins of Climate Change in the Early Modern British Atlantic.” Eric Herschthal Read more: oieahc.wm.edu/publications/w…