• Walter Hawthorne

• archives
• race
• ethics
• history

• slavery
• naming

This paper examines the ethical implications of public, internet-based history projects that list enslaved people by name.

• 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?

• Matthew S. Hopper

• dh
• ethics
• history
• social justice

• slavery

This paper examines ethical issues related to the use of the registers of liberated Africans in the Indian Ocean for historical research.

• Mamadou Yéro Baldé
• Djibrirou Daouda Ba
• Ismaïla Mbodji

• ethics
• pedagogy
• history

• global digital literacy
• slavery

Teaching the slave trade and slavery through the Senegalese liberation register is not only to put the digital humanities at the center of pedagogical transmission, but it is also to inscribe Senegalese learners in the time-world of science.