• 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.

• Richard Roberts
• Rebecca Wall

• ethics
• dh
• social justice
• race

• slavery
• liberation

Given the prevailing stigma and potential violence against people of slave descent in West Africa, what are scholars' ethical and political responsibilities in using the names of enslaved people who actively sought their liberation at the hands of French colonial officials during the second half of the nineteenth century in public-facing digital humanities projects?