Quick Update: Public Humanities Project: Boston Middle Passage

NB: this also cross-posted on my HASTAC page.

I am excited to announce that the National Park Service's Boston African American Historic Site is currently featuring the website I co-author/edit, BostonMiddlePassage.org. 

From BostonMiddlePassage.org:

On August 23, 2015, a ceremony recognizing Boston as a Middle Passage port site will take place. This event is part of a larger effort by the Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project (MPCPMP), an international, grassroots organization dedicated to commemorating the more than 2 million people who perished in the Middle Passage of the transatlantic human trade and the 10 million who survived. Partnering with historical and cultural societies, academic institutions, churches, visitor and tourist bureaus, and community organizations, the MPCPMP’s aim is to research, identify, and facilitate remembrance ceremonies at all ports of captive Africans’ entry during the 350 years of the transatlantic human trade in North, Central and South America, the Caribbean, and Europe.

The August 23, 2015 Boston ceremony acknowledges the city as a port receiving enslaved people who survived the international slave trade, as well as the vital role that Africans and their descendants played in the development of both the Massachusetts Bay Colony and the United States.

This website is meant to serve not just as a means of publicizing the August event, but also as a developing resource for information on the role of the Middle Passage and slavery in shaping Colonial New England's history.