http://freedomnarratives.org/
Freedom Narratives is an
ongoing digital history project that "focuses on the enforced migration of
enslaved Africans in the Atlantic world during the era of the slave trade from
the 16th to the 19th century." This project centers the voices of enslaved
people born in West Africa during this time period by using a digital
repository of their "autobiographical testimonies and biographical data
...to analyze patterns in the slave trade from West Africa, specifically in
terms of where individuals came from, why they were enslaved, and what happened
to them." Here, readers will be able to search through approximately 2,000
individuals' testimonies and browse them by categories such as gender, region
of origin, life event type (e.g. travel, emancipation, etc.), and the modern
country name where events occurred. Each person's entry includes a timeline of
their life history, a downloadable image of their testimony, and metadata for
both the individual and their testimony. Because Freedom Narratives is a work
in progress, not all of the testimonies are online as of this writing, but this
project shows great promise. Freedom Narratives is directed by Paul Lovejoy,
Professor of History and Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History at
York University in Toronto.
via https://scout.wisc.edu/archives/r50466/freedom_narratives
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