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Digital Editions List
An updated checklist of digital editions and multimedia produced by the Antislavery Literature Project.
News - ASU Insight Article on Project
An article on the Antislavery Literature Project in ASU Insight (Aug. 13, 2008).
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Poster
A Project poster featuring Harper's poem 'Free Labor'. Design by Kristen LaRue.
News - Mid-year Summary Report - July 2007 (PDF)
A brief mid-year report concerning development of the Project's online collections.
Charles Turner Torrey Poster
A Project poster on abolitionist Charles Turner Torrey. Designed by Kristen LaRue.
News - Zoe Trodd Lecture Video
A video of an April 2008 talk by Zoe Trodd (Harvard University) on "A Torch for Tomorrow: Civil Rights Protest Literature and the Historical Memory of Abolitionism", at Arizona State University.
News - Black History Month: Exhibit on 'Public Scholarship and Antislavery Literature' - February 2007
An exhibit and online exhibit at the Arizona State University English department during February 2007, entitled 'Public Scholarship and Antislavery Literature.' The exhibit features materials from the Project's working collection of historic antislavery texts.
News - Watching Slavery: Witness Texts and Travel Reports - February 2008
Joe Lockard published a new book, Watching Slavery: Witness Texts and Travel Reports (Peter Lang, 2008). Further information and a sample chapter available here.
News - Timothy Patrick McCarthy Lecture on African American Literature and Human Rights - February 2007
On Thursday, February 22, Project affiliate Dr. Timothy Patrick McCarthy (Harvard University) lectured at Arizona State University on 'African American Literature and the Development of Human Rights.'
News - Lecture Announcement
News and publicity materials for a forthcoming April 14, 2008 lecture by Zoe Trodd (Harvard University) at Arizona State University.
News - American Protest Literature Meeting, Old South Church (Boston)
WGBH (Boston) broadcast of a November 15, 2006 meeting at Old South Church on 'American Protest Literature.' Features talks by Project affiliates Zoe Trodd, Timothy Patrick McCarthy, John Stauffer, and others.
News - Conference Paper on Boston King - October 2007
Project director Joe Lockard presented a conference paper on 'The Reluctant Pietist: Boston King and Transatlantic Methodism' at the annual meeting of the Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.
News - Text Butcher Freeware Available - June 2007
This stylometric analysis freeware by Seri Oshima produces a matrix of word frequencies from a set of texts in .doc or .txt format. Together with Prof. Jose Binongo (Kennesaw State University), the Project developed Text Butcher for comparison and analysis of pseudonymous antislavery poetry. For usage instructions, see ‘readme’ in the zipped program files.
News - Oral History Project Uses Captive Voices to Fight Modern Slavery
News article on the work of Project affiliate Zoe Trodd (Harvard Gazette, October 26, 2006).
Slavery & Antislavery: A New Research and Teaching Workshop
News on an October 2006 workshop co-sponsored by the Antislavery Literature Project.
News - Timothy Patrick McCarthy Lecture Video on 'Prophets of Protest'
On Thursday, October 12, 2006, Project affiliate Timothy Patrick McCarthy lectured on 'Prophets of Protest: Literary Abolitionism and the Aesthetics of Equality' at the Arizona State University English department.
News - Electronic Resources on 'The Curse of Caste'
A new edition of Julia C. Collins' 'The Curse of Caste' (1865) has brought public attention to this early work of African American fiction. This is a collection of electronic resources concerning the publishing event.
Midnight University Statement
News and statement on the closing of the Midnight University public education website in Thailand. (PDF)
News - University of Mississippi Talk, Zoe Trodd
Daily Mississippian article on a speaking appearance by Project affiliate Zoe Trodd at University of Mississippi on March 23, 2006.
News - Gnawa Music of Morocco: Interview with Chouki El Hamel
An Afropop Worldwide interview in July 2006 with Project affiliate Chouki El Hamel on Gnawa musical culture and its relationship with historical slavery in Morocco.
New Editions - January-April 2006 (PDF)
List of nineteen digital editions published from January-April 2006.
IT in the Humanities: The Antislavery Literature Project
Talk by Joe Lockard at the ASU Institute for Humanities Research, February 24, 2006.
Jacksonian Mobs and the Rise of Antislavery Poetry
Talk by Joe Lockard at the December 2005 Modern Language Association convention.
Jacksonian Mobs and the Rise of Antislavery Poetry - Video
Video presentation of talk by Joe Lockard.
Transcendental Ethos: A Study of Thoreau's Social Philosophy and Its Consistency in Relation to Antebellum Reform
This study investigates the consistency of Henry David Thoreau's social philosophy in relation to Antebellum reform. A close examination of Thoreau’s writings reveals that he was not, however, a pacifist as is commonly assumed.
William Still and Philadelphia's African American Underground
Talk by Joe Lockard at Temple University, February 23, 2005.