Spatial History – Group Work

• Anna: An Animated Historical Short

Narrative Scripts: What are the contours and elements?

• Pro-Slavery
• Anti-Slavery
• Abolitionist

Geospatial History: In your working groups, review the following two examples of geospatial digital history.

• Slave Streets, Free Streets,” Visualizing the Landscape of Early Baltimore, https://earlybaltimore.org/ssfs and Anne Sarah Rubin, “Slave Streets, Free Streets: Visualizing the Landscape of Early Baltimore,” Current Research in Digital History, (Vol. 4, 2021), https://crdh.rrchnm.org/essays/v04-01-slave-streets-free-streets/
• Visualizing Emancipation: http://dsl.richmond.edu/emancipation/ Read, and also watch the animations.

• What is the argument?
• How does the sequencing work?
• What are the key elements of evidence?
• What role does space play? (absolute space, relative space, representational space, etc.)