Project Status: Complete

A resource to publish and explicate the documentary evidence of the first slave trading voyage sponsored by the Brown brothers of Providence, RI.

This project arose from the work of the Brown University Committee on Slavery and Justice, led by James Campbell. The committee investigated the contributions that slavery made to the early days of Brown University, and recommended ways to make the community at large think productively about slavery and and its aftermath. The Voyage of the Sally site was published as part of the committee's final report, which was released in October, 2006.

For this project STG developed a website to publish and explicate the documentary evidence of the first slave trading voyage invested in by the Brown brothers of Providence, RI. Students encoded the texts of letters, contracts and the ship's logbook in XML, using the TEI Guidelines. The site presents the original page images, together with searchable full-text transcriptions and contextual information from the markup such as regularized names, commodities and places. Accompanying these source materials are a set of introductory essays on the history and significance of the voyage. The project was planned and implemented in close collaboration with the Center for Digital Initiatives in the Brown University Library.

Voyage of the Slave Ship Sally (1764-1765) is a project of American Civilization

Contributors to this project include James Campbell (Faculty lead), Kerri Hicks (STG), Julia Flanders (WWP), Ann Caldwell (CDI)