Zoe Hume, MS graduate, Florida State University, is one of the 2021 Buchanan Burnham Fellows working on capturing data from the NHS archives on Black and Indigenous people of color in colonial Newport, Rhode Island. The following post relates to Cudjo Vernon, an enslaved individual in the Vernon household. In my previous post, I wrote […]
https://newporthistory.org/history-bytes-the-person-behind-the-name/Hampton Smith, Ph.D. student, MIT, is one of the 2021 Buchanan Burnham Fellows working on capturing data from the NHS archives on Black and Indigenous people of color in colonial Newport, Rhode Island. The following post relates to how, when exploring the histories of marginalized peoples, maintaining an awareness of those who recorded historical documents […]
https://newporthistory.org/history-bytes-perspective/Alexander Bice, MA graduate, Northeastern University, is one of the 2021 Buchanan Burnham Fellows working on capturing data from the NHS archives on Black and Indigenous people of color in colonial Newport, Rhode Island. The following post relates to the manumission of enslaved individuals by members of the Society of Friends. As a Buchanan Burnham […]
https://newporthistory.org/history-bytes-quaker-records-of-manumission/Zoe Hume, MS graduate, Florida State University, is one of the 2021 Buchanan Burnham Fellows working on capturing data from the NHS archives on Black and Indigenous people of color in colonial Newport, Rhode Island. The following post relates to the naming of enslaved individuals as they appear in the historical record. Discussions of the […]
https://newporthistory.org/history-bytes-whats-in-a-name/Hampton Smith, Ph.D. student, MIT, is one of the 2021 Buchanan Burnham Fellows working on capturing data from the NHS archives on Black and Indigenous people of color in colonial Newport, Rhode Island. The following post relates to the bond and indenture documents Hampton is currently studying. The word ‘Bond’ often connotes restraint: as in […]
https://newporthistory.org/history-bytes-bond-and-indenture-agreements/This is a guest blog post by Amelia Yeager (she/her), a first year Master’s student in public history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she studies free and unfree labor in early America and the legacies of rural labor and craft in cultural history. Amelia is a 2023 Buchanan Burnham Fellow. In this post, […]
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