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Kinfolkology

@kinfolkology

a digital archive, collaborative database collective and living memorial honoring enslaved ancestors. co-founders: Eola Lewis Dance and @drjkwilliams.

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Check out Jennie K. Williams, founder of Kinfolkology, on the podcast Relevant or Irrelevant! She discussed her book, "Oceans of Kinfolk," to be published by UNC Press next year! Oceans of Kinfolk will tell the story of...

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Join Kinfolkology in its first community event in Richmond, VA on May 5! They invite you to think and create with them for a conversation around data stewardship, Black genealogy, ancestral memory, and reparations for slavery. eventbrite.com/e/kinfolkology…

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This workshop is open to like-minded scholars, community organizers, activists and culture-bearers who identify as descendants of enslaved folks, & who are interested in co-collaborative, inter-community engagement. This is the kick off for their Descendant Engagement Initiative.

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Our May 5 event in Richmond has been postponed to a date later this summer. We will share the new date shortly and sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this change may have caused.

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Congratulations to Pyar Seth, Graduate Fellow with blackbeyonddata and co-developer of Underwriting Souls, for defending his dissertation, "Spectral Defect: Death, Diagnosis, and Determinism Across the Atlantic World" on May 2!

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We up. Nic(o) Brierre Aziz: Haïti Across the Water. The work is powerful and provoking. Come through. On view through August 31.

We up. 

Nic(o) Brierre Aziz: Haïti Across the Water. 

The work is powerful and provoking.

Come through.

On view through August 31.
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Welcome, welcome, welcome to Dr. Nadejda Webb (@isha_webb), the new Assistant Director of LifexCode: Digital Humanities Against Enclosure and Visiting Assistant Professor in the Center for the Digital Humanities!

Welcome, welcome, welcome to Dr. Nadejda Webb (@isha_webb), the new Assistant Director of LifexCode: Digital Humanities Against Enclosure and Visiting Assistant Professor in the Center for the Digital Humanities!
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Come celebrate Black history, kinship, and resistance at the public launch of Keywords for Black Louisiana (K4BL), a digital collection of enslaved testimony from French- and Spanish-controlled Louisiana. With musical presentation from special guests: Les Cenelles 🎶

Come celebrate Black history, kinship, and resistance at the public launch of Keywords for Black Louisiana (K4BL), a digital collection of enslaved testimony from French- and Spanish-controlled Louisiana. With musical presentation from special guests: Les Cenelles 🎶
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We can't wait to talk about Kinfolkology's work and invaluable archive. You can catch the live stream - and join the convo - at youtube.com/live/Wz1unTF03… #chattelslavery #transatlanticslavetrade #blackgenealogy #blackancestry

We can't wait to talk about <a href="/kinfolkology/">Kinfolkology</a>'s work and invaluable archive.

You can catch the live stream - and join the convo - at youtube.com/live/Wz1unTF03…

#chattelslavery #transatlanticslavetrade #blackgenealogy #blackancestry
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We are sharing previews of conversations we look forward to having @ #KinfolkologyxComnunityRVA. Here is the 1st: a conversation about data stewardship/consent inspired by the efforts of a formerly enslaved woman named Celia Gaines to find her family. kinfolkologyxcommunity.org/celia-gaines

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As a little girl, Delia Garlic was separated from her family & sold. Decades later—long after the Civil War—a strange white woman showed up at her door in Montgomery asking a host of dumb questions. [This is preview 2/6 of #KinfolkologyxCommunityRVA.] kinfolkologyxcommunity.org/delia-garlic

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In 1825, Burwell Lee was found guilty of burglary in Caroline County, VA. His sentence? Being sold as a “slave” to a professional human trafficker. Reparations are owed. Let’s talk about it. [This is preview 3/6 of # KinfolkologyxComnunityRVA.] kinfolkologyxcommunity.org/burwell-lee

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Most people trafficked in the antebellum interregional trade came from families that had been enslaved in the Upper South for generations: American ancestries that predated the nation itself. [This is preview 4/5 of #KinfolkologyxComnunityRVA.] kinfolkologyxcommunity.org/charles-moody

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After the Civil War, thousands of African Americans left where they had been enslaved behind and founded new “freedom colonies.” Others made a different decision: to stay and fight for freedom where they were. [Preview 5/6 of #KinfolkologyxComnunityRVA.] kinfolkologyxcommunity.org/battle-payne

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We’ll share more about #kinfolkologyxcomnunityrva soon, but for now we just want to say THANK YOU to everyone who joined us in Richmond today, and everyone who helped make this gathering possible! Photo by CacheBadAzzFuck

We’ll share more about #kinfolkologyxcomnunityrva soon, but for now we just want to say THANK YOU to everyone who joined us in Richmond today, and everyone who helped make this gathering possible!

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