Kinfolkology is a digital archive, collaborative database collective, and living memorial honoring enslaved people, particularly by celebrating their kin and kindred.
In the essence of our broader commitments to ethical partnership and structural parity with descendant communities, Kinfolkology humbly invites you to think and create with us as, together, we facilitate a conversation around data stewardship, Black genealogy, ancestral memory, and reparations for slavery.
This workshop is open to like-minded scholars, community organizers, activists and culture-bearers who identify as descendants of enslaved folks, and who are interested in co-collaborative, inter-community engagement. Please join us in kicking-off the first of a series of events as part of our Descendant Engagement Initiative.
Why Richmond?
Kinfolkology is the home of the Oceans of Kinfolk database. Built by Kinfolkology Co-Founder Jennie K. Williams, Oceans of Kinfolk contains the names of more than 63,000 enslaved people who were trafficked to New Orleans in the maritime domestic slave trade (also known as the coastwise trade) in the forty years before the Civil War. More than half of those individuals departed from Virginia.
