AbstractEducation: Black and White Together, Black History in New England Track: Community Projects and Partnerships Author(s): Joan Gardner, Barbara Lewis, Claus Goerges Working together, the UMass Boston Trotter Institute and the GIS Core Research Facility have devised an educational project using ArcMap and ArcGlobe. Black Geographies maps the graves of slaves or runaway slaves. These sites are not racially segregated. We have identified the grave sites of a number of individuals influential in black history in New England including William Wells Brown, a novelist, dramatist, and historian; Harriet Wilson, who published the novel, Our Nig in 1859; and Harriet Jacobs, author of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861). We have mapped these sites and others using the MassGIS orthophotos. These points have been linked to digital photos of the grave sites and to Web sites with information about the individual. Links have also been created to Word documents about the individual. This is an ongoing project as we learn more about individuals important to black history in New England. Joan Gardner University Mass Boston GIS Core Research Facility 100 Morrissey Blvd Boston, MA 02125 US Phone: 617-287-7788 E-mail: joan.gardner@umb.edu Barbara Lewis UMass Boston William Trotter Institute 100 Morrissey Blvd Boston, MA 02125 US Phone: 617-287-5879 E-mail: barbara.lewis@umb.edu Claus Goerges CGIS 65 Lewis St Marion, MA 02738 US Phone: 508-916-7795 E-mail: clausgoerges@yahoo.com |