Data Archiving
25 January 2024
Harvard Dataverse receives copies of over 20,000 interpreted African names leaving the Western Bight region and is being incorporated into the person dataset. For more information see AfricanRegions.org.
Data Archiving
22 December 2023
Harvard Dataverse receives copies of over 113,500 registered "Liberated Africans" is being incorporated into the website. This expanded list builds on previous transcriptions of "Liberated Africans" in Freetown, Sierra Leone after 1808. The expanded list includes other registers made in Cuba, Brazil, the British Caribbean, East Africa, Southern Europe, and the Middle East.
Data Archiving
10 July 2023
Harvard Dataverse receives copies of three key datasets: "Global Survey of "Liberated African" Cases during the Suppression of the Slave Trade from Africa, 1800-1920;" "Maritime Blockade of the Slave Trade, 1800-1900;" and "Catalogue of Anti-Slave Trade Legislation in Global Perspective."
Version 3
1 June 2023
Walk With Web Inc. designed Version 3. Upgrades include a legislation archive, departure regions, and maritime slave trade blockades. Global totals expand to over 5,500 cases involving over 700,000 people between 1800 and 1920. Mapping supported by the University of Colorado Boulder and a Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellowship (NN-2006-08535).
Congress
1 June 2023
At the Congress of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, and with the Canadian Association of African Studies, the talk entitled "Relaunch: LiberatedAfricans.org" explains the website's new mapping features and expanded dataset.
Press Release
25 May 2023
Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine publishes "Historian Hones Website Focused on African Slaves Who Were ‘Liberated’ but Not Freed."
AfricanRegions.org
15 December 2022
Designed by Walk With Web Inc., AfricanRegions.org launches to regionalize pre-colonial Africa and align with LiberatedAfricans.org. This controlled vocabulary was previously published in History in Africa. Mapping supported by a Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellowship (NN-2006-08535) and a National Endowment for the Humanities Connections Grant (AKB-285879-22).
New Developer
28 September 2020
LiberatedAfricans.org moves to Walk With Web Inc. for improved development. Domain transferred and files imported into the Regenerated Identities network of African Digital Humanities projects.
Edited Volume
January 2020
The University of Rochester Press publishes Liberated Africans and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1807-1896. This edited volume questions the integrity of some of the world's earliest international courts of humanitarian effort and "liberation" of over 200,000 enslaved people from Africa from 1808 to 1848.
Version 2
15 March 2018
Version 2 relaunches to improve searchability. It is designed and hosted by Matrix: The Center For Digital Humanities & Social Sciences at Michigan State University. This version uses a relational database scheme developed around lists of people, places, events, and sources for around 500 trials held in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Founding Partner
9 January 2018
LiberatedAfricans.org is named a founding partner of Enslaved: Peoples of the Historic Slave Trade. This Linked Open Data project is a clearinghouse of information listing names of enslaved people compiled by scholars who can make submissions to Enslaved.org for online publication.
Digital Publication Fellowship
Fall 2017
LiberatedAfricans.org receives a National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Publication Fellowship to redesign datasets and organize documentation based on people, places, events, and sources. The focus is to preserve the "Registers of Liberated Africans" produced in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Uses materials digitized from the Sierra Leone Public Archives via the British Library Endangered Archive Program (EAP 284, EAP 443, and EAP 782).
Conference
10-12 June 2017
York University hosted a conference entitled, "Liberated Africans and the Abolition of the Slave Trade." The conference featured several African History, Digital Humanities and multi-disciplinary scholars and was supported by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Conference Grant.
Panel
1 December 2016
At the African Studies Association 59th Annual Meeting, there is a panel entitled, “The Liberated Africans Project: New Developments for the Study of the Abolition of the Atlantic and Indian Ocean Slave Trades.”
Hutchins Center Grant
2 October 2015
The Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University awards LiberatedAfricans.org a grant to support the redesign of Version 1 for improved searchability.
LiberatedAfricans.org
6 August 2015
Version 1 is handcoded in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Content focuses on preserving the "Registers of Liberated Africans" made by the Havana Slave Trade Commission's first 44 trials between 1824 and 1841, as well as a mini-documentary entitled, "Liberated Africans of the Havana Slave Trade Commission" and an Image Gallery in global perspective.