• Walter Hawthorne
• Richard Roberts
• Fatoumata Seck
• Rebecca Wall

• race
• history
• ethics

This introduction provides a broad overview to the context of digital humanities projects dealing with enslaved people and frames the debate over the ethics and politics of using the names of enslaved people.

• 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.

• 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.

• Annette Joseph-Gabriel

• race
• archives
• pedagogy

In this paper, I examine the ethics and pedagogical implications of unnaming for the political project of historical recovery, showing how students' interpretive choices when working with archival materials illuminate the ways that deliberate unnaming can enact a shift away from anonymity and erasure and, in turn, a move towards productive engagement with the limits of knowledge and recovery in slavery's archive.

• 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.

• 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?

• Marie Rodet
• Mamadou Séne Cissé

• ethics
• history
• race
• moving images

• descent-based slavery
• digital public history
• Mali
• ethics of care
• web documentary
• participatory visual research
• digital gap
• co-production
• shared authority
• equitable partnership
• transmedia
• remediation

How do you create a digital public history project on slavery with concerned communities in Mali who are increasingly at risk of violence because of the very topic of slavery?