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Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation

Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation (JSDP) is a digital academic journal that publishes original datasets about the lives of enslaved Africans and their descendants drawn from the documents produced from the fifteenth to the early twentieth centuries. JSDP is also the method by which data is contributed to Enslaved.org.

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Read short biographical sketches about people associated with the historical slave trade–both prominent figures and also those lesser known.

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Search over numerous datasets and reconstruct the lives of people involved in the historical slave trade. Browse interconnected data, generate visualizations, and explore short biographies of enslaved and freed peoples.

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Enslaved frames the ethics of our project around inclusive and reparative scholarship about historical slavery and responsible stewardship of historical data about enslaved people in digital spaces.

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