LitHub: How Empirical Databases Have Changed Our Understanding of Early American Slavery

LitHub: How Empirical Databases Have Changed Our Understanding of Early American Slavery. “In historical scholarship during the early 21st century, some of these new methods and tools of truth-seeking have been put to work on a large scale in the history of slavery and race in America. Among the most important and useful of these tools are the careful construction of empirical databases. Increasingly, this work has been done by teams of scholars, who combine traditional sources with digital methods on a new scale.”