Thompson: During and after the American Revolutionary War the term slavery retained it pre-war usage, but “slavery” became a conventional short-hand for chattel slavery after the Revolution. #SHEAR2023 #S15

Thompson: In the 1760s there isn’t a lot of use of “slaves” and “slavery” by white texts. They used other euphemisms. #SHEAR2023 #S15

Thompson looked a”Slavery,” “Slave,” and “Slaves” He finds that they are only together in a corpus by 1820 and it is associated with the word “empire.” We also see a growing connection with “Trade” and “maritime” later in the period.

Slaver and Slavery only becomes connected with the term "African" in 1812. It was often linked to tyranny and oppression.

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Thompson says this (word analysis) all sounds complicated, but it's simple in the way it works. #SHEAR2023 #S15

Thompson: Founders Online contains the growing corpus of edited papers for 7 Founders. They used ShiCo to explore shifting concepts through time. It’s meant to provide information about the changing use of words over time. #shear2023 #s15

Thompson: His DH analysis is about chartering the changing uses or understandings of slavery over time. His project came about from a thought experiment of what would happen if you created an algorithm and have it go through all of the papers in Founders Online all at the same time. #SHEAR2023 #S15

Thompson: Notes that DH is part of your sources. You can use technology to take you only so far in your research and then all of the reading you’ve done also kicks in. #SHEAR2023 #S15

Now Speaking: Mark L. Thompson (Groningen): “Tyranny, Oppression, and Africans: ShiftingConceptions of Slavery in Anglo-American Corpora, ca. 1760-1820” #SHEAR2023 #S15

@maevekane is talking about how she was a traditionally trained historian and "backed into" DH and social networking analysis. She is providing information about how others can do this work too. She said her slides have software listed for network analysis ranked in order of complexity. #SHEAR2023 #S15

@maevekane: It also asks us to think about how DH methods ask us to think about both BIG and tiny data and what these data points can reveal. We need to think about how we read absences in the data.
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@maevekane: Many white ministers refused to baptize black children or they would baptism them separately and document them separately and those baptismal volumes have largely been lost. #SHEAR2023 #s15

@maevekane social networking visualizations and data is fascinating. It can't be captured in a toot. #SHEAR2023 #S15

@maevekane: We eee an absence of black families in the Caughnawaga Dutch Reformed Church, 1760-1776 records. #SHEAR2023 #S15

Liz Note: If I recall from my reading and the reading of others the Dutch Reformed Church was often reluctant to baptize enslaved people because of the idea that Christians can't (or shouldn’t) be enslaved.

@maevekane: What you see with Haudenosaunee baptisms is they picked one godparent from the mother’s clan and another godparent for a different clan.

Whites often chose godparents from among family members and business relations.

We don’t see a lot of documents about black baptisms and godparentage. But from the documents we have we see a lot of face-to-face selections. They chose people within their network. #SHEAR2023 #S15

@maevekane: The public act of baptism and the public witnessing of that act was seen as essential to the act. At home or private baptisms happened rarely because they were seen as dangerous to the congregation to have baptisms outside of Christian churches. #SHEAR2023 #S15

@maevekane uses digital methods to expand the way we look at women and families in Indigenous communities. She is hoping to do this same work for African and African American women and families. There is absence in digital history.

Her work is very much incomplete and in progress but she has invited us to look at her slide deck: https://maevekane.net/shear2023/#/title

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Now Speaking: Maeve Kane (U Albany): “The Capacious Sacrament of Necessity: Community Formation in Early American Godparentage Networks." #SHEAR2023 #S15

Just Announced: Christy Hyman (Mississippi State): “Wilderness of Freedom in the Great Dismal Swamp” will not be presenting at this panel. #SHEAR2023 #S15

Getting ready for Charting the American Paradox: Digital Perspectives on Slavery and Freedom in the Early Republic. #SHEAR2023 #S15

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