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Digitizing Guardianship Registers in Senegal (1895-1910): Naming as Evidence and Ethical Concern
  • Kelly M. Duke Bryant
  • ethics
  • archives
  • databases
  • history
  • children
  • slavery
  • liberation
  • post-emancipation
  • liberated minors
  • naming
  • aliases

This article describes the process of building a database of names and information about formerly enslaved children in early colonial Senegal, and it uses the database to ask both historical and ethical questions about naming practices and aliases, experiences of unfreedom, and self-fashioning among these children.

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