Slave Societies Digital Archive

The incredible Dr. Jane Landers and Dr. Daniel Genkins teach us about SSDA's remarkable mission to uncover valuable untold stories of enslaved peoples across the Atlantic world. Thank you @VanderbiltU! Check it out! youtu.be/pgsFxSqo_no

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Join us this Thursday at 4 PM for the Black Atlantic Speaker Series in the Community Room at Vanderbilt University's Central Library. Reception to follow. Huge thanks to sponsors @VanderbiltCLACX , @VandyLibraries , @RPWCenter , @vandyhistory @VanderbiltU CAL and AADS!

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" #FortMose State Park hosts groundbreaking ceremony to begin fort reconstruction. [...] Kathleen Deagan and Jane Landers authenticated the fort’s location through historical documents, thermal and satellite imaging, aerial photographs, and artifacts." staugustine.com/story/news/loc…

@SlaveSocieties featured on BBC for our work on Fort Mose, the 1st free Black town in the US! Read the article & learn more about this important piece of history: bbc.com/travel/article…

“AI Unearths Untold Stories: Slave Societies Digital Archive,” won three awards at the 2024 Association of Research Libraries Film Festival. Thank you, @JadAbumrad and @VanderbiltU news.vanderbilt.edu/2024/05/23/cel…

CLACX celebrates 75 years of Latin American and Latinx Studies! Gratitude to MyVU News, @vuartsci, and @VanderbiltU for this heartfelt article. Join us this Thursday at 3 pm in the Community Room at the Central Library to mark this milestone! #SomosVU as.vanderbilt.edu/news/2024/04/0…

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Harriet Tubman's great nieces, Eva and Alida Stewart, 1910.

Join us next Monday, February 5 at 4 p.m. at the Central Library for our Black Atlantic Series event with the amazing Joseph Clark. See you there!

@VanderbiltCLACX @celso_thomas Congratulations! #somosvu

Congratulations to @celso_thomas Castilho, associate professor of history and director of the Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies! He was recently elected as president of The Conference on Latin American History. CLACX is so proud of you! #somosvu

After 44 years of enslavement in Maryland & DC, Yarrow Mamout gained his freedom at 60. Through his remunerated work as a brick maker, he purchased real estate in Georgetown, stock in the Colombia Bank, & served as a financier for local merchants. Portrait by Charles Wilson Peale

SSDA’s primary goal is to identify, catalogue, and preserve endangered records for the study of slave societies, but our teams have also produced transcriptions of these unique documents linked to the original images. Visit our website for more! slavesocieties.org

This Friday at 12 pm, SSDA (@SlaveSocieties ), CLACX, and the Department of History are pleased to present the Circum-Atlantic Studies Seminar 2023-2024: “African Body Markings and the Construction of Blackness in Colonial Brazil” with Dr. Aldair Rodrigues (UNICAMP, Brazil).

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This Friday at 12 pm, SSDA (@SlaveSocieties), CLACX, and the Department of History are pleased to present the Circum-Atlantic Studies Seminar 2023-2024: “African Body Markings and the Construction of Blackness in Colonial Brazil” with Dr. Aldair Rodrigues (UNICAMP, Brazil).

The Digital Scholarship & Communications (DiSC) office within @VandyLibraries will be presenting a workshop on using the Open Science Framework (OSF) system to manage and archive data. For location and details, please visit newsonline.library.vanderbilt.edu/2023/03/introd…