M&D related: The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record

[pynchonoid]

I don't know if it has any pictures of those happy
slaves owned by George Washington that some folks here
were talking about during the last M&D discussion, but
this may be of interest to Pynchon readers all the
same:

The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the
Americas: A Visual Record
<http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/>

Funded by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
(with technical
assistance from the Digital Media Lab at the
University of Virginia Library)
this rather engaging collection of several hundred
photographs offers ample
visual documentation of the Atlantic Slave Trade and
the daily lives of
slaves in the Americas over a period of several
centuries. The materials
presented here were selected by Jerome S. Handler, a
senior fellow at the
Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, and ably
assisted by Michael L.
Tuite, Jr., the head of the Digital Media Lab. The
collection itself "is
envisioned as a tool and a resource that can be used
by teachers,
researchers, students, and the general public."
Visitors to the site may
search the entire archive by keyword, or by category.
Some of the categories
include Marketing & Urban Scenes, Religion & Mortuary
Practices, and Family
Life, Child Care, Schools. Each image is accompanied
by a brief description
and, when available, information about each item's
provenance. [KMG]

from: Internet Scout Report, February 27, 2004
<http://scout.wisc.edu/>


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