Bringing Texas to the SlaveVoyages Database
Panel presentation, Second Foundings: Universities, Slavery, and Struggles for Justice in Texas and Beyond, Houston, TX, USA
During the panel discussion titled “SlaveVoyages and Second Foundings,” I shared research that Victoria Zabarte, Ben Schacter, and I conducted as undergraduate history students at Rice University in 2021-2022. Our research involved using digitized “slave manifests” preserved at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to study the coastwise trade of enslaved people to Texas coastal ports from other U.S. ports. The historical data we transcribed and collected from these archival documents was uploaded to the SlaveVoyages database in February 2023.