Scott Nesbit will talk about two attempts to use online visualization to gain a better understanding of the history of emancipation. ”Marriage & Migration,” is a map of the cohabitation records in Virginia and was published to accompany an essay in the journal Southern Spaces. Visualizing Emancipation, to be released in February 2012, is an attempt to harvest and organize a large amount of information from the Official Records and other sources on where and when black southerners became free during the U.S. Civil War. He especially looks forward to thinking about the ways in which such projects could foster conversation and collaboration with local historians.
CVHR meets at 4pm on Thursday, February 2nd in the Kenwood Library at Monticello.