Ecclesiastical and Secular Sources for Slave Societies (ESSSS)

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Description

The ESSSS project, directed by Jane Landers and administered at Vanderbilt University, digitally preserves endangered ecclesiastical and secular documents related to Africans and African-descended peoples in slave societies. The ESSSS Digital Archive contains over 600,000 unique images, dating from the 16th to the 20th centuries, which document the history of between 4 and 6 million individuals. Although the focus is on Africans and their descendants, these records also include valuable information on the indigenous, European, and Asian populations who lived alongside them.

Publisher

http://www.vanderbilt.edu/esss/

Date

08/21/2017

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Citation

Landers, Jane et al, “Ecclesiastical and Secular Sources for Slave Societies (ESSSS),” Legacies of the Enlightenment, accessed September 22, 2023, http://enlightenmentlegacies.org/items/show/108.