Kinfolkology x Community: Richmond, VA

is a digital archive, collaborative database collective, and living memorial honoring enslaved people, particularly by celebrating their kin and kindred.

In the essence of our broader commitments to , Kinfolkology humbly invites you to think and create with us as, together, as we facilitate a conversation around data stewardship, Black genealogy, and ancestral memory. We will also give a behind-the-scenes introduction to two databases hosted by Kinfolkology:

is a database of the coastwise traffic of enslaved people in the antebellum United States. Oceans of Kinfolk currently includes the names of more than 63,000 enslaved men, women and children trafficked to New Orleans from domestic ports between 1818 and 1860. More than half of those individuals departed from Virginia. Oceans of Kinfolk was constructed by Kinfolkology Co-Founder Jennie K. Williams.

is a developing Kinfolkology database and digital archive of enslaved people who were sold in New Orleans, the largest market for the buying and selling of human beings in antebellum America.

The workshop is open to scholars, community organizers, activists and culture-bearers who identify as of enslaved folks, and who are interested in co-collaborative, inter-community engagement.

images above: Hamilton Glass, “Girls for Change" located at corner of East Broad and North 1st streets; portrait of Maggie Walker (1903) via Portraits for Progress; John G. Zehmer, The Sixth Mount Zion Church (1942); Ana Edwards, "Gabriel, the day before" acrylic on birch plywood, 2005; Sheppard, William Ludwell, “The first African church, Richmond, Virginia--Interior of the church, from the western wing,” 1874, accessed @ https://www.loc.gov/item/97507948/; Thomas Jay Warren, Emancipation and Freedom Monument on Brown's Island, RVA.

Host or Publisher Eola Lewis Dance & Jennie K. Williams