Events
About Kinfolkology x Community Workshops
Kinfolkology is an open archive, digital home, and collaborative community dedicated to remembering enslaved people as kin and kindred. Kinfolkology x Community workshops convene Descendant individuals, communities, and organizations and allies of structural parity. We have three goals for these gatherings:
One, we want to get to know you.
Kinfolkology x Community events allow our team to meet individuals, families and organizations from various Descendant communities and learn how to support their work.
Two, we’d like to introduce ourselves.
Kinfolkology x Community events provide an opportunity for our team to share what we do and why we do it. We will also give a behind-the-scenes introduction to two databases hosted by Kinfolkology:
Oceans of Kinfolk 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.
Louisiana Kindred 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.
And three, let’s talk: about data stewardship, genealogy, ancestral memory, reparations, and much more.
