{"id":508,"date":"2016-10-03T12:59:35","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T19:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/?p=508"},"modified":"2016-10-03T12:59:35","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T19:59:35","slug":"week-1-blog-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/2016\/10\/03\/week-1-blog-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 1 Blog Post"},"content":{"rendered":"

Legacies of British Slave-ownership\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Introduction: <\/b><\/span>The DH project I looked at was the \u201cLegacies of British Slave-ownership<\/a>\u201d. This project was conducted at the UCL (University College of London), \"screen-shot-2016-10-03-at-2-44-02-am\"<\/a>and one of the main goals of this project was to identify all slave-owners and estates in the British colonies after the mid-1700s; otherwise known as an \u201cEncyclopedia of British Slave-Owners\u201d. This project amassed and analyzed information about the activities, affiliations, and legacies of all British slave-owners on the database.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sources: <\/b>In order to create a massive encyclopedia of British slave-owners, this project had to pull information from many sources. They sourced the\u00a0<\/span>Slave Compensation Commission, which is a document that managed the distribution of the 20 million pound compensation and provided a census of slave-ownership in Britain in the 1830s. They also utilized different maps to locate the estates of slave-owners, such as OpenStreetMap, Digimap (for specific buildings), Lockie\u2019s Topography of London, \u201cOld to New Street Names\u201d, and Aaron Arrowsmith\u2019s map of 1807.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Processes:\u00a0<\/b><\/span>On the home page, there is a section which divides the information of British slave-owners into categories which aids your journey of identifying or finding slave-owners. The categories are: commercial, cultural, historical, imperial, physical, and political. T\"screen-shot-2016-10-03-at-12-53-34-pm\"<\/a>here is also a \u201cSearch the Database\u201d and \u201cEstates\u201d tab at the top which allows one to advance search for an individual\u2019s detail or a particular estate. Each category leads you to a different page filled with information and sorted based on the relevant title of the category. For example, the commercial legacy page is organized by name, position, and then location\/business name. You can further click on “details” to see notes and sources. According to the lengths this team has gone to allow visitors to find individuals and estates, I believe this website is targeted more for scholars, researchers, and historians. The average person may not find such specific information necessary unless they possibly wanted to delve into their ancestors lives.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Presentations: <\/b><\/span>Unlike the other DH projects, this one is not as interactive or visually appealing, which further adds to the case that this site is for more educational and research purposes. This project does utilizes maps, however, and you can choose to see either Britain, Jamaica, Barbados, or Grenada. For Jamaica, \"screen-shot-2016-10-03-at-3-00-04-am\"<\/a>the map initially displays the location on a map in present time and then slowly fades to present a map produced by James Robertson in 1804 place over the current map. You can see in the image that there is an option to change the transparency of the map, and here I have the transparency set so you can see the current landscape with Robertson\u2019s map slightly visible over the current one. The white circles represent estates of slave-owners, and you can click each circle to get more information about who owned the estate and a timeline of ownership.<\/span><\/p>\n

Conclusion: Overall this DH project is slightly overwhelming with how much information is provided, and thus the team who created the website probably provided simple tabs and categories to make the excess information a lot less scary. The home page definitely makes the site look friendlier, and I am surprised how they could locate so many slave-owners around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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