Legacies of British Slave-ownership

Author(s): University College London, Department of History
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Citation: University College London, Department of History. Legacies of British Slave-ownership. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/.
Section on webpage: Decolonizing Archives, Digitized Collections, and Digital Humanities
Tenets: Concern with materiality (bodies, labor, not just virtual and discursive).
Annotation: A database produced in the first two phases of a project studying how colonial slavery shaped modern Britain – while at present primarily a resource for studying slave-owners, it is also intended to provide information of value to those researching enslaved people.

 

The Orlando Project

Author(s): University of Alberta
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Citation: University of Alberta. The Orlando Project. http://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/orlando/.
Section on webpage: Decolonizing Archives, Digitized Collections, and Digital Humanities
Tenets: Concern with materiality (bodies, labor, not just virtual and discursive).
Annotation: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present is a new kind of electronic textbase for research and discovery. As a new kind of history of women’s writing, it seeks to further the study and understanding of literature, focusing particularly on the part women have played in its development.

 

Inland Empire Memories

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Citation: Inland Empire Memories. http://www.inlandempirememories.org/.
Section on webpage: Decolonizing Archives, Digitized Collections, and Digital Humanities
Tenets: Concern with materiality (bodies, labor, not just virtual and discursive). Considering alternative histories and narratives.
Annotation: Inland Empire Memories is an alliance of libraries, archives, and cultural heritage organizations dedicated to identifying, preserving, interpreting, and sharing the rich cultural legacies of diverse communities in Riverside and San Bernardino Counties, a geographical region also known as Inland Southern California.

 

GU272 Memory Project

Author(s): New England Historic Genealogical Society
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Citation: New England Historic Genealogical Society. GU272 Memory Project. https://gu272.americanancestors.org/.
Section on webpage: Decolonizing Archives, Digitized Collections, and Digital Humanities
Tenets: Concern with materiality (bodies, labor, not just virtual and discursive).
Annotation: In 1838, Maryland’s Jesuit priests sold hundreds of men, women, and children to Southern plantations to raise money for the construction of Georgetown University. This site may be used to search for an ancestor and to hear the stories of the more than 8,000 descendants of the enslaved, located through genealogical research.