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.
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/
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/
Key Outputs
Henry Lovejoy, "Global Survey of "Liberated African" Cases during the Suppression of the Slave Trade from Africa, 1800-1920." https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ZL6R2A, Harvard Dataverse, V1 (2023).
Henry Lovejoy, "Maritime Blockade of the Slave Trade, 1800-1900." https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ZNE4SK, Harvard Dataverse, V1 (2023).
Henry Lovejoy, Brenna Bythewood, Tiffany Beebe, Ann Chapman Terrill, Alexander Gillette, Olivia Hart, Ian Hogg, Kathleen King, Alexander Langer, Travis May, Megan Tocci, and Chloe Zehr, "Catalogue of Anti-Slave Trade Legislation in Global Perspective", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/6OZDQC, Harvard Dataverse, V1, (2023).
Karl Grossner, and Henry B. Lovejoy, "Regionalization of Africa as a Controlled Vocabulary for Data Analysis." https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/9YIWBJ, Harvard Dataverse, V1, (2022).
Henry B. Lovejoy, "Registers of "Liberated Africans" of the Havana Slave Trade Commission, 1824-1841." https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/8RWXO4, Harvard Dataverse, V1, (2018).
Donated Spreadsheets
Beyond the above digital resources, the following researchers graciously donated raw spreadsheets, which were modified and integrated into this metadata scheme:
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:
Place
Place or port of arrival around the world. Required field. A controlled vocabulary for place names are associated with geographic coordinates using Google Maps Global Mercator EPSG:900913. See https://epsg.io/transform#s_srs=4326&t_srs=900913&x=NaN&y=NaN