Mapping Freedom: From slavery to freedom in the US Virgin Islands
Name of applicant
Gunvor Simonsen
Title
Associate Professor
Institution
University of Copenhagen
Amount
DKK 6,464,783
Year
2024
Type of grant
Digital Research Infrastructure
Summary
MAPPING FREEDOM will produce a database of the permanent and transient population of the Danish West Indies (today US Virgin Islands) 1841-1917. It will be a decisive research tool for documenting the effect of legal freedom on the lives of formerly enslaved people, enslavers, and their descendants. The database will be the first of its kind concerning not merely the DWI but the region as a whole.