Slavery and Its Legacies

Slavery and Its Legacies


Jonathan Schroeder on Mapping North American Slave Narratives

October 19, 2017

Jonathan Schroeder, a recent Postdoctoral Associate at Yale's Digital Humanities Lab, discusses his post-doctoral research project "Passages to Freedom: Mapping the North American Slave Narratives. "Passages to Freedom" examines the language and mobility of 294 African-American slave narratives.