LifexCode Director Quoted in NYT

Slavery, data, and Black life

LifexCode Director Jessica Marie Johnson is quoted in an opinion piece by Jamelle Bouie, discussing slavery, data, and the launch of the Oceans of Kinfolk Inter-American slave trade database:

“If you’re doing a digital humanities project, it exists in the world,” said Jessica Marie Johnson, an assistant professor of history at Johns Hopkins and the author of “Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World.” “It exists among a public that is beyond the academy and beyond Silicon Valley. And that means that there should be certain other questions that we ask, a different kind of ethics of care and a different morality that we bring to things.”

Also quoted are Marcus Rediker, David Eltis, Jennifer Morgan, Marisa Fuentes, Walter Johnson and Martha Jones.

Read the piece here.