This portal was developed through collaboration with Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. We gratefully acknowledge the advice and assistance of the curators, librarians, and archivists of participating institutions. In particular we wish to thank Jennifer Kowitt at the Yale Center for British Art, George Miles at the Beinecke Library, Kate Ezra at the Yale Art Gallery, Mike Widener at the Yale Law School Library, Paul Grant-Costa at the Lewis Walpole Library, Abraham Parrish at the Yale Map Department, subject librarians Greg Eow and Sue Roberts, and Yale Divinity School librarian Martha Smalley.
Project Manager
Joseph Yannielli
Ph.D. Candidate in History and Instructional Innovation Intern, Yale University.
Original Design Team
Richard Huzzey
Lecturer in History, University of Liverpool
Thomas Thurston
Education Director, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
Joseph Yannielli
Ph.D. Candidate in History and Instructional Innovation Intern, Yale University.
Certifying Authority
David Blight
Class of 1954 Professor of American History and Director, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition