Black Loyalist

Virginia's Black Methodists from the Book of Negroes - Prototype

This project builds on the research of Professor Cassandra Pybus into a  distinct cohort in the Book of Negroes who are all Methodists from Tidewater Virginia. Professor Pybus has traced individuals by reading backwards into the archives of the pre-revolutionary Virginia to reveal a web of interconnection that indicated unexpected patterns of slave family formation and kin networks.The  complexity of the many interconnections required the development of a  network visiualisation  that could provide an effective interpretative tool for the mass of complex and fragmentary data. A prototype visualisation of the Black Methodists can be viewed http://methodists.blackloyalist.info/.

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Black Loyalist is a repository of historical data about the African American loyalist refugees who left New York between April and November 1783 and whose names are recorded in the Book of Negroes.

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