The Fugitive Digital: Using Digital Scholarship on Slave Resistance for Teaching, Activism and Research

Organized by the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition and the Yale Center for British Art, this panel and workshop is geared toward K–12 educators, students, activists, and faculty, and focuses on accessing digital primary sources on fugitives from slavery.
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Roundtable participants:
Edward Baptist, Professor of History at Cornell University, Project leader, Freedom on the Move
Paul Gardullo, Supervisory Museum Curator and Director of the Center for the Study of Global Slavery at the National Museum of African American History and Culture
Amalia Levi, Archivist in Barbados, founder of The HeritEdge Connection
Marenka Thompson-Odlum, Research Assistant at Pitt Rivers Museum
Simon Newman, Professor of American History, University of Glasgow
Christine Whyte, Lecturer in Global History, University of Glasgow
Joe Yannielli, Lecturer in History, Aston University
Zandra Yeaman, Glasgow Council for Racial Equality and Recognition, Virtual Museum of Slavery and Empire
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THE EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
LUNCH WILL BE PROVIDED - Please indicate any dietary restrictions on the registration page
REGISTRATION REQUIRED
Funded by the AHRC Network Connecting Digital Histories of Fugitive Slaves