The content, design, programming, and sustainability are developed at the Digital Slavery Research Lab, under the direction of Henry Lovejoy (Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Colorado Boulder), and in partnership with Walk With Web, under the direction of Kartikay Chadha, PhD candidate at McGill University.
Programmers & Designers
This website is developed by computer programmers, web-developers and graphic designers at Walk With Web (WWW). The project receives long term digital development and sustainability support as part of the Regenerated Identities network of African Digital Humanities projects. WWW is dedicated to train undergraduate and graduate students by matching them with different projects to learn while contributing to the project development. The lead developer on this project is Maria Yala (Senior Web Developer). The following individuals have contributed to the programming and design component of this website:
Shruti Kapoor (2023 - Ongoing)
Vincent Lai (2022 - Ongoing)
Saloni Pande (2021 - 2022)
Hussain Saifee (2022)
Jindya Su (2022 - 2023)
Thamires de Andrade (2020 - 2021)
Advisors & Collaborators
For more information about this digital publication and metadata schemes before 2019, please refer to this project history. Since 2020, the following experts have contributed knowledge, data, and archival materials in global perspective. The global survey of 'Liberated Africans' was initially released in June 2023 and peer-reviewed in 2024:
Richard Allen
Edward Alpers
Abubakar Babajo Sani
Stephen Behrendt
Klara Boyer-Rossol
Mariana Candido
Frederick Carey
Daniela Carvalho Cavalheiro
Samuël Coghe
Myriam Cottias
Mégane Coulon
José Curto
Rina Cáceres
Yacine Daddi Addoun
Nickoal Eichmann-Kalwara
Faisal Ferah
Sharla Fett
Céline Flory
Coen van Galen
Beatriz Gallotti Mamigonian
Thomas Garriss
Shantel George
Trevor Getz
Karl Grossner
Gwendolyn Midlo Hall
Matthew Hopper
Allen Howard
Alaine Hutson
Marial Iglesias Utset
Martine Jean
Katrina Keefer
Sean Kelley
Martin Klein
Abu Koroma
Carlos Liberato da Souza
Thea Lindquist
Tracy Lopes
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Paul Lovejoy
Enrique Martino
Hamish Maxwell-Stewart
Keith McClelland
Érika Melek Delgado
Jonathan Miran
Behnaz A. Mirzai
Bernard Moitt
Ismael Montana
Albert Moore
Fred Morton
Matthew Murray
Francis Martinez Otero
Andrew Pearson
Satyendra Peerthum
Kyle Prochnow
Cassandra Pybus
Jake Richards
Richard Roberts
Inés Roldán de Montaud
Nielson Rosa Bezerra
Anita Rupprecht
Vanessa dos Santos Oliveria
Marta Scaglioni
Padraic Scanlan
Suzanne Schwarz
Ibrahima Seck
Fábio Silva Magalhāes
Tim Soriano
Randy Sparks
Ehud Toledano
Jelmer Vos
Bruno Véras
Rebecca Wall
Christine Whyte
John M. Willis
Peter H. Wood
Research Assistants
The following students have helped to design, generate data, organize, and map the Anti-Slavery Legislation Digital Archive through paid and for-credit internships at the University of Colorado Boulder:
Tiffany Beebe (2019-2020)
Brenna Bythewood (2022-2023)
Alexander Gillette (2022)
Olivia Hart (2023)
Kathleen King (2021)
Alexander Langer (2020)
Travis May (2019-2020)
Kinsey Miller (2019-2020)
Megan Tocci (2020)
Chloe Zehr (2023)
Archiving & Sustainability
The University of Colorado Boulder’s Center for Research Data and Digital Scholarship is a collaboration between Research Computing and University Libraries. Information and materials on this website are backed up using CU Scholar which is an institutional repository and PetaLibrary for long-term storage. These services are certified CoreTrustSeal repositories and follow FAIR data principles, which allow for indefinite preservation. The following librarians consult on archiving this website.
Sponsors
