Freedom on the Move' Archives

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 ...

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

Freedom on the Move is a digital archive and crowdsourcing project that provides access to information, through thousands of print advertisements, about ...

Freedom on the Move

Created to control the movement of enslaved people, runaway ads ultimately preserved the details of individual lives--their personality, appearance, and life ...

Freedom on the Move - UA News Center - The University of Alabama

Rothman is working with three other institutions to digitally archive runaway slave ads. Typically, enslavers wanted the person back alive, but ...

Freedom on the Move builds database of fugitive slave ads

They hope to attract more scholars, archives and organizations who can contribute advertisements to the database. Baptist and William Block ...

Freedom on the Move | re3data.org

A database of fugitives from North American slavery. Freedom on the Move is a citizen science (crowdsourcing) project operated by the Cornell Institute.

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

The “Freedom on the Move" database, maintained at Cornell University in partnership with several universities, is a free and open archive of “ ...

Freedom on the Move - World History Commons

Tags ... Outline of a man and woman running away, set against a background of advertisements. “Freedom on the Move is a crowdsourced, multi-institutional effort ...

Freedom on the Move: A Digital Archive (review) - Project MUSE

Freedom on the Move is an ambitious project that effectively illuminates some of the most exciting aspects from current digital humanities ...

Exploring the Freedom on the Move Database with Edward Baptist

And in the process of resisting, they write themselves-- they inscribe themselves on precisely the archive that is meant to police them, to put ...

Freedom On The Move Launches Database Of Fugitives From ...

Freedom On The Move Launches Database Of Fugitives From American Slavery ... Archives, which has made the very expensive process of building an ...

Freedom on the Move - Scout Archives -

Freedom on the Move is a crowdsourced database of these ads intended as a tool for students, teachers, researchers, genealogists, and citizen historians. The ...

Freedom on the Move - Bunk History

Freedom on the Move · Freedom on the Move is a database of fugitives from North American slavery. · We are compiling thousands of stories of resistance that ...

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

Files. Description. 'Freedom on the Move' (FOTM) creates a digital resource from an estimated 100,000 runaway slave advertisements from pre-1865 U.S. newspapers ...

Teaching Hard History Online Archives and Databases

Freedom on the Move. The searchable database is a collection of more than 22,000 advertisements placed by enslavers across the nation in search of fugitives ...

Freedom on the Move: A Database of Fugitives from American ...

... archives left about enslaved people, especially Marisa J. Fuentes's Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive (2016). At ...

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

Finding Runaway Slaves: Freedom on the Move and the Databasing of ... 2016 Election Africa African American Anniversary Archives Books ...

An Archive of Fugitive Slave Ads Sheds New Light on Lost Histories

... archive that they call Freedom on the Move. “These ads are, in a sense, the Tweets of the 'master class,'” Ed Baptist, a historian at ...

Freedom on the Move in Louisiana - 64 Parishes

Archived notices of people escpaing slavery plot a geography of resistance. by Elizabeth Clark Neidenbach. Published: December 1, 2019. Last Updated: March ...

Freedom on the Move | By NYS Equal Rights Heritage Center

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