Jennie K. Williams

Co-Founder

Jennie K. Williams, Ph.D. is a historian of race and slavery in the United States and postdoctoral fellow at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Oceans of Kinfolk, a database of the coastwise traffic of enslaved people in the antebellum United States. Her first book, also called Oceans of Kinfolk, will be published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2024. 

email: jkw@kinfolkology.org