Credits

    The author began this project as a Fellow of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities during the fall of 1999. Jerome Handler, Senior Fellow of the Foundation, offered valuable advice based on his own extensive research in slavery and the Middle Passage. See his own site, Pictorial Images of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Joe Miller, T. Cary Johnson, Jr. Professor of History at the University of Virginia and Director of the VFH and NEH seminar, Roots, also provided support and inspiration.

    Help and support from the Virginia Center for Digital History, especially its director, Will Thomas, and acting assistant director, Amy Murrell, were vital for the project's realization. The VCDH is dedicated to developing and hosting quality web-based historical resources. It is home to the award-winning Valley of the Shadow and Virtual Jamestown.

    Randy Shiflett, of Virginia Tech and director of Virtual Jamestown, has agreed to include the runaways project as part of Virtual Jamestown.

    David Seaman, of the University of Virginia's unparalleled Electronic Text Center, has written the search code and hosts the runaways database on the Etext server.

    Lathan Algerna Windley's four-volume compilation of runaway ads (Greenwood Press, Wesport CT, 1983) was the inspiration for this project.

Tom Costa
The University of Virginia's College at Wise
Wise, VA

Please e-mail questions and comments to the author, at tmc5a@mcs.uvawise.edu.

last updated 30 April 2002. There's more to come.

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