About

The Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation (ISSN 2691-297X) is a digital academic journal that publishes data articles describing original datasets about the lives of enslaved Africans from the fifteenth to the early twentieth century. The Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation builds from and expands upon the pioneering digital scholarship on the transatlantic slave trade. As such, the Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation elevates curated data to first-class publication status, providing scholarly review, recognition, and credit to those who undertake the intellectual work involved in generating, contextualizing, standardizing, and describing digital records related to historical bondage and freedom in Africa and its diaspora.

The Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation works in conjunction with Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade (Enslaved.org) to make the data contributed discoverable and interactive and to establish a sustainable scholarly repository for digital projects concerned with the history of African slavery. The Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation focuses mainly on publishing and preserving data articles, whereas Enslaved.org acts as an interactive, searchable repository for digital data. All datasets published by the Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation will be included on Enslaved.org and preserved in the Harvard Dataverse or other appropriate repository.

Journal Staff & Contact

Primary Contact: Kristina E. Poznan, Managing Editor, poznankr@msu.edu

Walter Hawthorne, Editor
Daryle Williams, Editor
Catherine Foley, Data Specialist
Alicia M. Sheill, Data Specialist 
Mary Casey, Editorial Associate

If you know of a great data resource that belongs in Enslaved.org, please contact us with a reference to the resource at enslaved.org@gmail.com.

Editorial Board

The Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation's editorial board represents scholars whose research foci are on various regions of Africa and the African Diaspora where enslaved individuals and groups originated as well as areas where slaves were forcibly trafficked and (re)settled throughout the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds. Members serve a three-year term and help to recruit and review content for the JSDP.

Heather Bollinger
Daniel Domingues, Rice University
Jorge Felipe-Gonzalez, University of Texas at San Antonio
Sharon Leon, Michigan State University
Keith McClelland, University College London
Philip Misevich, St. John's University
Mary Niall Mitchell, University of New Orleans
​Steven Niven, Harvard University
José Juan Pérez Meléndez, University of California, Davis
Assan Sarr, Ohio State University
Ibrahima Seck, Whitney Plantation & Cheikh Anta Diop University
Jessica Trotter, Capital Area District Library