Keywords for Black Louisiana
Digital portals into the history of Africans and people of African descent in Gulf Coast Louisiana
Image: Keywords at the Louisiana Historical Center at the New Orleans Jazz Museum during the Black History in Louisiana Summer Workshop, August 2022
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Researching Black New Orleans
Status: Seeding, Fall 2023
Building datasets, digital media, and archives and exploring methodologies for studying Black New Orleans. Working with teachers to bring research on Black life into their pedagogy and into the classroom.
Image: Old Slave & Cabin, via Amistad Research Center
K4BL Documentation
What are keywords for an African and African diasporic history of Louisiana’s founding? Using the Louisiana Colonial Documents Project, K4BL is building terminology and metadata for finding Black life in Louisiana’s earliest archive. Visit the K4BL GitHub to explore documentation about the project.
Image: The French Market-The Hen Trader, Scribner's Monthly (Nov.1873-Apr.1874), vol. VII, p. 147. (Copy in Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library) via Slavery Images
Past and Moved Projects
Explore the Prototype
Status: Coming Soon, July 2024
Keywords for Black Louisiana is building a digital documentary edition of transcribed and translated documents that tell the story of enslaved and free Black communities.
Keywords is a member of the 2022 NHPRC-Mellon Planning Grant Cohort. Learn more about the NHPRC-Mellon planning grants here.
Image: Keywords for Black Louisiana logo created by The Black School Design Studio
Archipelagos of Marronage
Status: Data Collection
Tracking freedom from Louisiana to Saint-Domingue and beyond. Using Marronage dans le monde Atlantique: Sources et trajectories, this portal explores Black fugitivities along the Gulf Coast and beyond.
Image: Runaway Slave Ads, 2 April 1836 via Purchased Lives: An Annotated Resources Set hosted by the Historic New Orleans Collection and curated by Erin Greenwald.
Moved to the Community Knowledge Lab of the Diaspora Solidarities Lab, see dslprojects.org
Image: Mapping the Sites of the Slave Trade in New Orleans; resource curated by Erin Greenwald, et. al. for the exhibit Purchased Lives: New Orleans and the Domestic Slave Trade for the Historic New Orleans Collection via Tripod New Orleans
Header Image: Perfect Gentlemen Secondline, 2015, 📸: Jessica Marie Johnson