In September 2003 when Hurricane Isabel ravaged the eastern NC coast and traveled inland to Edenton, NC it left insurmountable effects of damages in its wake. It was a tremendous loss for the two-hundred and ninety-one year old town as most of the local economy depended on historic tourism. As the town began to rebound … Continue reading Reconstructing the structure of cultural assertion: Kadesh AME Zion Church in Edenton, NC
Tag: digital humanities
Invited Lecture: Mapping Movements and Memory
My friend and colleague Dave Tell at the University of Kansas was kind enough to recommend my work to Paul Stob at Vanderbilt. Because of this referral Stob invited me to share my work on counter-mapping enslaved flight within the Great Dismal Swamp. I learned a great deal from everyone there and met some excellent … Continue reading Invited Lecture: Mapping Movements and Memory
Reconstructing Moses Grandy’s World
This video is from an invited lecture I gave at the Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Kansas in February 2017. Special thanks to my friend and colleagues Brian Rosenblum and Phil Stinson. (click Lecture) Lecture
Digital Mapping: Locations within the enslaved narratives of Moses Grandy and Harriet Jacobs
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