Slave Records Digital Archive Receives ACLS Extension Grant

Wed, 18 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000

A project directed by Jane Landers, the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of History, to preserve endangered African and Afro-descended slave records has been awarded an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Digital Extension Grant, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Jean and Alexander Heard Library staff members have provided significant assistance to the Ecclesiastical and Secular Sources for Slave Societies digital archive and website, with Clifford Anderson, director for scholarly communications, among the project team.

“My colleagues at the Vanderbilt University Library and I are delighted to support Jane Landers’s flagship digital humanities project,” Anderson said. “This grant builds on the success of the international workshop ‘Digital Humanities and the History of Slavery’ held at the library last fall. In future symposia, we’ll be discussing how to expand the reach, richness and connectivity of the project using technologies like linked data and web services.”

History of Slavery | Clifford B. Anderson

Slave Records Digital Archive Receives ACLS Extension Grant