The SLIDE Team and Our Acknowledgements | St. Louis Integrated Database of Enslavement

Kelly Schmidt, Reparative Public Historian, has worked with students, faculty, and staff in advancing SLIDE since summer 2022.
Carl F. Craver created SLIDE and has been working with students, faculty and staff at Washington University in St. Louis to build, promote and use this database since 2018. Craver is also the head administrator of SLIDE.

The WashU and Slavery Project has provided support in the form of planning and funding.
Iver Bernstein advises SLIDE in its continuing projects.
WUSTL’s University Archivist, Sonya Rooney, and Rudolph Clay, the AFAS subject librarian and senior lecturer, have provided archival and library support.
The Dean of Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis has provided funding for summer research.
Funding of summer research projects, along with technological assistance listed above, supported by the Washington University Digital Humanities Summer Workshop.
Workspace and inspiration provided by Patricia Olynyk (Director of the Creative Research Institute and of the Research Pod Program).

Search engine programmed by Douglas Knox (Assistant Director, Humanities Digital Workshop, WUSTL) and Stephen Pentecost (Senior Digital Humanities Specialist, Humanities Digital Workshop, WUSTL).
Web Design and Text by Carl Craver (Professor of Philosophy, WUSTL), Kelly Schmidt (Postdoctoral Research Associate, WUSTL), Cecilia Wright (WUSTL Undergraduate Student), and Bridget Kelly (WUSTL Graduate Student)
Data standardization developed and implemented by Kelly Schmidt and Cecilia Wright.

Data input and edited by Santiago Rozo Sanchez (WUSTL Graduate Student), Oswald Codjoe (Assessment & Analytics Coordinator, University Libraries, WUSTL), Tumaini Ussiri (Digital Humanities Specialist, Humanities Digital Workshop, WUSTL) and Kelly Schmidt.

Garrett Yalch transcribed the 1845 St. Louis City Census, created a dataset from it, and corrected the dataset.
Garrett Yalch created heatmaps visualizing the density of enslavement in St. Louis drawing from the 1845 census.

Information from the 1850 U.S. Census on Family Search
Program created by Max Paull (WUSTL Undergraduate Student; Digital Humanities Workshop Summer Fellow)
Data edited by Max Paull (WUSTL Undergraduate Student; Digital Humanities Workshop Summer Fellow)
1860 U.S. Census on Family Search
Data Input Program created by Douglas Knox (Assistant Director, Humanities Digital Workshop, WUSTL) and Cecilia Wright (WUSTL Undergraduate Student)
Data edited by Cecilia Wright (Student at WUSTL; Digitial Humanties Workshop Summer Fellow 2021; WashU and Slavery Project Student Researcher, present).

Database created by Miel Wilson and Bob Moore (National Park Service Historian, retired)
Data Input Program created by Michael Joo (WUSTL Undergraduate student)
Data input by Julian Golden, Emily Regan, Adam Teich, and Julia Feller, Lauren Bush, and Elizabeth Phaelen (WUSTL Undergraduate Students).
Data edited by Max Paull (WUSTL Undergraduate Student; Digital Humanities Workshop Summer Fellow) and Kelly Schmidt

Data compiled by Bob Moore (National Park Service Historian, retired) and Dr. Kris Zapalac
Reformatted by Carl Craver (Professor of Philosophy), Nkemjika Emenike (WUSTL Undergraduate Student), and Cecilia Wright (WUSTL Undergraduate Student)

Database created by Bob Moore (National Park Service Historian, retired) and Ebony Y. Jenkins.
Edited by Cecilia Wright (WUSTL Undergraduate Student)

Data entry template and category standards developed by Dhyuti Venkataraman (WUSTL Undergraduate Student).

St. Louis Ward and township map shapefiles generously shared by the St. Louis Genealogical Society.
Spreadsheets to join census ward shapefiles with search results created by Dhyuti Venkataraman (WUSTL Undergraduate Student) and Rekha Labhsetwar Morgan (WUSTL Undergraduate Student).
ArcGIS map created by Zihan Feng (WUSTL Graduate Student)