Check-In
- Name and Institution
- How is your semester going?
- Favorite Lost Cause, Civil War, Slavery, Reckoning book or article?
- Questions for the Agenda
Reminders
Main Agenda
- Spoke Sites are finished!!
- How to add users to the backend
- Elizabeth’s question: I have 10 or so named buildings that I know or heavily expect will raise some protests re their inclusion in the database, due to political hero worship or prominent living relatives. Assuming they find out their inclusion. I’m wondering how others are handling this – sprinkling them in among older names, holding off for a couple more cycles? Preparing responses in anticipation?
- Point to the historical document
- Not doing this work alone
- Academic freedom
- Student and community pressure and support
- looking for instutional support
- Meredith archives to incorporate the database into their own archive
- Question about categorizing people— do we need a separate tag for benefitted from enslavement or pre-emancipation defender of racial hierarchies ? Better the definition of enslaver (to match the definition for people)
- worried about where the cutoff is— didn’t all white people benefitted from enslavement
- not needed to be more specific categories
- benefitted for sharecropping— mercer
- looking at small farmers who benefitted from the perception of being a large plantation that you didnt actually have
- renting of enslaved people
- What to do about people who owned slaves but didnt have family wealth from enslavement?