GLC Digital Humanities Symposium: “The Study of Slavery and Abolition in the Digital Age”

Welcoming Remarks, 11:00

David Blight, Director, Gilder Lehrman Center
Peter Leonard, Director, Digital Humanities Lab

Morning Panel, 11:30-1:00

Denise Burgher, University of Deleware
Jim Casey, Princeton University
The Colored Conventions Project
www.coloredconventions.org

Linford Fisher, Brown University
Database of Indigenous Slavery in the Americas
https://indigenousslavery.org/

Dawn Chitty, African American Civil War Museum
John Clegg, New York University
African American Civil War Soldiers Project
www.usct.cc

Moderator: jub Sankofa, Yale University

Lunch: 1:00 to 2:30

Afternoon Panel, 2:30 to 4:00

Joseph Yannielli, Yale University
Students from Dr. Yannielli’s class “Runaways, Rebels, Wenches & Rogues”
Runaway New England

Judith Giesberg, Villanova University
Margaret Jerrido, Archivist, Mother Bethel AME Church, Philadelphia
Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery
http://www.informationwanted.org/

Moderator: Danya Pilgrim, Yale University

Sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at the MacMillan Center, the Digital Humanities Lab, and Public Humanities at Yale