My project Mapping Revolts of Enslaved Africans that is being accomplished with support from the American Council of Learned Societies, accessible here. That digital humanities map was initially created on the Google Map platform, with over 363 markers on revolts by the enslaved worldwide. It also has 100 markers of revolts that happened on the coast of Africa and at sea. Each marker houses images from archives, text, audio, and videos that depicted the historical events, hyperlinks to additional resources, and downloadable PowerPoints. The African Heritage Studies Association published the Revolts of Enslaved Africans map on April 15, 2020, and it has since attracted more than 260,000 views, signaling interest in this format and its potential reach.

My next mapping project will focus on Resistance of Africans and African Descendants to Colonialism and Segregation 1945-1990 to expand existing materials to improve the teaching and study of the history of resistance. This project is contingent on decades of scholarship on slave revolts, Anti-colonialism, and efforts to end segregation/marginalization within the core humanities topic of history. Emphasis on resistance will bring the stories from civic response to armed revolt across Africa and the African diaspora via an interactive, digital modality. This map would concisely cover a people’s history at a particular time that still has ramifications in the present moment, as witnessed in commemorating those who led slave revolts and those who were instrumental in the Anti-colonial and Civil Rights movements.