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- Title
Reaping the Harvest: Descendant Archival Practice to Foster Sustainable Digital Archives for Rural Black Women.
- Authors
Sutton, Jazma; Craig, Kalani
- Abstract
Little is left of the built environment that marked the Greenville-Longtown Black Settlement, a once-thriving, free Black agricultural community on the border of Randolph County, Indiana, and Darke County, Ohio. The people of Greenville have not been forgotten, however, because of the memory-work undertaken by each generation of Black women whose power and agency connects their past with their future descendants. This article draws on "descendant archival practices" as a method to understand the importance of Greenville's Black women in the preservation of rural Black community heritage and in the writing of Black women's histories in the antebellum Midwest. Descendant archival practices connect Black digital humanities practices to the Longtown-Greenville descendant community's digitization of artifacts and oral histories and supports a community-owned version of their active Facebook group. The result, a History Harvest called Remembering Freedom: Longtown and Greenville History Harvest , will facilitate ongoing community participation and future history harvests for overlooked, forgotten, and long-silenced communities. In a world that has always conceived of Black women in opposition to others, but never on her own terms, Remembering Freedom History Harvest builds a local Indiana historiography that relies less on resistant readings of archives and more on the community archives and memory work that join together in descendant archival practice as a way to generate Black women's histories.
- Subjects
GREENVILLE (S.C.); INDIANA; DIGITAL libraries; BLACK women; HARVESTING; COMMUNITIES; BUILT environment; RURAL women
- Publication
DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly, 2022, Vol 16, Issue 3, pN.PAG
- ISSN
1938-4122
- Publication type
Article