Research

Digital Resources

During data collection, the following open-source archives were consulted and contain primary sources surrounding "Liberated Africans." Materials from some of these resources are reorganized and presented herein.

Adam Matthews Digital, https://www.amdigital.co.uk/
African Origins, https://african-origins.org/
Ancestry, http://www.ancestry.com/
Angola Slave Registers, https://slaveregisters.org/
Between Oceans and Continents, https://africanregisters.org/
BNDigital, Brasil, https://bndigital.bn.gov.br/
Endangered Archive Programme, British Library, https://eap.bl.uk/
Enslaved, https://enslaved.org/
Center for Research Libraries, https://www.crl.edu/
Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/
Centre International de Recherches sur les Esclavages et Post-Esclavages, https://esclavages.cnrs.fr/
Digital History Tazmania, https://digivol-test.ala.org.au/
Freedom Narratives, https://freedomnarratives.org/
Hathi Trust Digital Archive, https://www.hathitrust.org/
Historical Papers Research Archive, http://historicalpapers-atom.wits.ac.za/
The Ganges Families History Project, https://thegangesfamilies.com/
Google Books, https://books.google.com/
Internet Archive, https://archive.org/
Language of Marks, https://languageofmarks.org/
Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/
Nationaal Archief, Nederlands, https://www.nationaalarchief.nl/
The National Archives, United Kingdom, https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
National Archives, United States, https://www.archives.gov/
ProQuest: Parliamentary Papers, https://www.proquest.com/
Qatar Digital Library, https://www.qdl.qa/en
The Record Office for Leicestershire, http://www.recordoffice.org.uk/
REMAP Database, http://www.remapdatabase.org/
Royal Museums Greenwich, https://www.rmg.co.uk/
Senegal Liberations Project, https://www.senegalliberationsproject.com/
Slave Society Digital Archives, https://www.slavesocieties.info/
Slavery Images, http://www.slaveryimages.org/
Studies in the History of the African Diaspora – Documents, https://shadd.org/
Records of Slave Ship Movement Between Africa and the Americas, 1817-1843, https://www.disc.wisc.edu/archive/slave/slave01_index.html
Répetoire 1857-1904, https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/5185180
SlaveVoyages, https://www.slavevoyages.org/
Suriname: Slavenregisters, https://www.ru.nl/slavenregisters/
UK Parliamentary Archives, https://digitalarchive.parliament.uk/
University Libraries at CU Boulder, https://www.colorado.edu/libraries/
The Victorian Royal Navy, https://www.pdavis.nl/
Visualizing Abolition, expired 2022, http://visualizingabolition.org/
Yoruba Diaspora, http://yorubadiaspora.org/

Donated Datasets

Beyond the above digital resources, the following researchers graciously donated raw datasets, which were modified and integrated into this metadata scheme:

Daniela Carvalho Cavalheiro, "Rio de Janeiro Person Dataset" (received in 2018).
Samuël Coghe, "Libertos Angola," (received 2020).
Trevor Getz, "Trials of the Gold Coast Protectorate" (received 2021).
Matthew S. Hopper, "Liberated Africans in the Indian Ocean" (received in 2019).
Ismael Montana, "List of Vessels in Mediterranean" (donated in 2021).
Vanessa Oliveira, "Registro de Libertos" (received in 2021).
Andrew Pearson, "St. Helena Vice Admiralty Court" (received in 2017).

Metadata

Between 2016 and 2017, the people, places, events, and sources metadata scheme and controlled vocabulary was initially developed. The following section provides a list of all controlled vocabulary terms currently in use:

CASES
EVENTS
SOURCES