Business and Bondage: Indigenous and Colonial Slavery and the Making of the Ohio Valley
October 19, 2022
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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Alexis Guilbault, PhD (she/her)
Director, Digital Humanities Initiative, University of Illinois, Chicago
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Multiethnic Digital Humanities Project
Historian
From 1700-1865, Indigenous, Black, European, and Euro-American people and various forms of slavery co-existed in the Ohio Valley. I argue that nineteenth-century residents used Indigenous and colonial bondage as a model for American unfreedom across Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky. Indeed, the arrival of foreign colonists and the intensification of Native warfare with Europeans enlarged North American slavery, and, later, U.S. settlers crafted cunning legal and terminological solutions to protect various forms of Black unfreedom, including slave hiring and servitude. To wrap up, I will introduce a digital humanities (DH) project on convict labor and demonstrate how DH enhances traditional research and presentations of that work.
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Sep 6, 2022
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Sep 6, 2022