Exploring the Freedom on the Move Database with Edward Baptist

A database of fugitives from North American slavery that compiles thousands of stories of resistance drawn from the advertisements and newspapers and jails.

Freedom on the Move

Freedom on the Move is a database of fugitives from North American slavery. With the advent of newspapers in the American colonies, enslavers posted “runaway ...

Podcast episode explores resistance to slavery via newspaper ads

A new episode of The Humanities Pod podcast, “Tweets of the Un-Mastered Class: Exploring the Freedom on the Move Database with Edward Baptist ...

Tweets of the Un-Mastered Clas - The Humanities Pod

Tweets of the Un-Mastered Class: Exploring the Freedom on the Move Database with Edward Baptist ... Ed Baptist, Cornell history professor, joins ...

February 6: Edward Baptist, “Digitizing Down To the Roots of Racist ...

... database and teaching tool. Freedomonthemove.org is a collaborative ... Freedom on the Move. All are welcome, but pre-registration is ...

Freedom on the Move | By NYS Equal Rights Heritage Center

... Edward E. Baptist, of Cornell University, speaking about Freedom on the Move: Harriet Tubman, Slavery as racialized policing, and Solidarity ...

Freedom on the Move Crowdsources “Runaway Ads” for Database ...

... Edward Baptist, professor of history at Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences. Baptist had for years been considering ways to crowdsource ...

Freedom on the Move and the Databasing of Fugitive Slave ...

Edward E. Baptist is Professor of History and Dean of Carl Becker House at Cornell University. ... database) the stories contained in the ...

Freedom on the Move Builds Database of Fugitive Slave Ads ...

... Ed Baptist, professor of history in the College of Arts and Sciences. The FOTM team will work with high school and college classes, museums ...

Freedom on the Move: Rediscovering the Stories of Self-Liberating ...

With the advent of newspapers in the American colonies, enslavers posted “runaway ads” to try to locate fugitives. Additionally, jailers posted ads describing ...

A Database of Fugitive Slave Ads Reveals Thousands of Untold ...

Freedom on the Move from Cornell University is the first major digital database of fugitive slave ads from North America.

NEH Award HAA-256102-17, Cornell University

Associated Products. Freedom on the Move (Database/Archive/Digital Edition) Title: Freedom on the Move Author: Baptist, Edward ... Abstract: Using New Orleans ads ...

Edward Baptist - Top podcast episodes

Ed Baptist, Cornell history professor, joins Paul and Annette to discuss the Freedom on the Move database and related pedagogical projects. This work by Baptist ...

Freedom on the Move: A Crowdsourced, Comprehensive Database ...

... Freedom on the Move ... Freedom on the Move: A Crowdsourced, Comprehensive Database of North American Runaway Slave Advertisements. Edward E. Baptist ...

Rethinking and Recon guring the Oceans of Kinfolk Database

Johnson (Black Beyond Data) and Edward E. Baptist (Freedom on the Move) as senior advisors and principal investigators.19 Kinfolkology's foundational ...

'Freedom on the Move,' Clarifying Complicity in American History

In exploring the ads found within the Freedom on the Move database, the folly of debating the extent to which racism was endemic in American ...

The Half Has Never Been Told | Edward E. Baptist | Talks at Google

Historian Edward E. Baptist visited Google's Cambridge, MA office to discuss his book, "The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making ...

The Half Has Never Been Told by Edward E. Baptist - Basic Books

A groundbreaking history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved people.

Edward E Baptist's book "the half has never been told." - Reddit

I recently came across a talk by Edward E Baptist on his new book "the half has never been told: Slavery and the making of American capitalism"

Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism - YouTube

Edward Baptist explores the expansion of slavery in the decades after American Independence. A Book signing follows the program.