Enslaved: Peoples of the Historic Slave Trade
Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
RCAH Theatre (Snyder Hall, Terrace Level)
March 8-9, 2019
More than 50 scholars from around
the globe will be in attendance when the Enslaved: Peoples of the Historic
Slave Trade conference begins on March 8, 2019 at the RCAH Theater in
Snyder-Phillips Hall at Michigan State University. A truly international event,
the Enslaved conference brings together scholars based in the United States,
Canada, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Benin, the Bahamas, and the Netherlands.
The conference encourages collaboration among scholars utilizing databases to
document and reconstruct the lives of individuals who were part of historic
slave trades. This conference will focus primarily on the enslavement and trade
of people of African descent before the twentieth century, but other
presentations discuss enslaved indigenous peoples in the Americas. The
conference has a broad geographic focus, including presentations on slavery in
parts of the U.S., the Caribbean, Spanish, Portuguese, and Dutch parts of the
Americas, several different regions of Africa, and Europe. The conference will
take place from roughly 8:30-6:00 on both Friday, March 8, and Saturday March
9. A more detailed schedule can be found here.
With support from the Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation, the Enslaved project is building a digital hub for students,
researchers, and the general public to search over numerous databases to
reconstruct the lives of individuals who were part of the historic slave trade.
Current digital projects fail to merge the data across the datasets, resulting
in isolated projects and databases that do little to aid scholars in analyzing
these sources. The Enslaved conference will provide opportunities for
researchers across the globe to gain important knowledge about the construction
of databases for public consumption, and encourages collaboration between
scholars to best make public accurate and easily accessed information about
slavery and the slave trade.
If you’d like to register, please
email enslavedconference@gmail.com. There is no fee.
