Caribbean Genealogy Library’s Annual Meeting: New Research Project called “Mapping Freedom”

The Caribbean Genealogy Library (CGL) on St. Thomas had its Annual Membership Meeting on Sunday, Feb. 9. The event was held virtually only. Email the library for more information on attending via Zoom at: caribgenlibrary@gmail.com

CGL is pleased to have as part of the annual meeting, the lead historian and archivists working on a new research project called “MAPPING FREEDOM: From Slavery to Freedom in the US Virgin Islands”. Presenters include Gunvor Simonsen, Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen, alongside Niklas Thode Jensen and Barbara Revuelta-Eugercios, both of them archivists at the Danish National Archives.

MAPPING FREEDOM will provide a decisive research tool for documenting the effect of legal freedom on the lives of formerly enslaved people, enslavers, and their descendants.

First, it will allow an ability to understand how parents’ pasts of enslavement shaped their children’s lives in both economic, social, and cultural terms and to also look at the fate of white enslavers once slavery was abolished.