@article{175d15bb6940439b8ef5b347c9d2bd33,
title = "Slavery in Suriname. A Reconstruction of Life Courses, 1830–1863",
abstract = "The slavenregisters or slave registers of Suriname offer a unique perspective on the social and demographic history of a people in bondage. Thanks to a citizen science project, the archival sources were transcribed in 2017 by hundreds of volunteers. The transcriptions were used to create a longitudinal database of more than 90,000 enslaved persons. This paper describes the sources, data entry, and cleaning to create a standardized database as well as the matching needed to construct life courses. We discuss the best practices we have learned along the way. Finally, it offers prospects for research and expansion of the database to other population sources and areas.",
keywords = "Citizen science, Life courses, Record linkage, Slavery, Suriname",
author = "{van Galen}, {Coen W.} and Mourits, {Rick J.} and Matthias Rosenbaum-Feldbr{\"u}gge and Maartje A.B. and Jasmijn Janssen and Bj{\"o}rn Quanjer and {van Oort}, Thunnis and Jan Kok",
note = "Funding Information: The development of the database of the Surinamese slave and emancipation registers could not have been possible without the support of more than 600 volunteers and a number of specialists like Dr. Maurits Hassankhan, emeritus professor Humphrey Lamur and the other board members of the HDSC Foundation. We are very grateful for their support. Our gratitude also extends towards the National Archives of Suriname, the National Archives of the Netherlands, the Radboud University Nijmegen and the Anton de Kom University of Suriname for their practical and institutional support. In addition to the almost 400 private donors who supported our crowd funding campaign, we received funding from PDI-SSH, the Gerda Henkel Stiftung, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, Stichting Democratie en Media, CLARIAH and the Radboud Institute for Culture and History (RICH). Funding Information: Historical Life Course Studies is a no-fee double-blind, peer-reviewed open-access journal supported by the European Science Foundation (ESF, http://www.esf.org), the Scientific Research Network of Historical Demography (FWO Flanders, http://www.historicaldemography.be) and the International Institute of Social History Amsterdam (IISH, Funding Information: In addition to the almost 400 private donors who supported our crowd funding campaign, we received funding from PDI-SSH, the Gerda Henkel Stiftung, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, Stichting Democratie en Media, CLARIAH and the Radboud Institute for Culture and History (RICH). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2023, van Galen, Mourits, Rosenbaum-Feldbr{\"u}gge, A.B., Janssen, Quanjer, van Oort, Kok.",
year = "2023",
doi = "10.51964/hlcs15619",
language = "English",
volume = "13",
pages = "1830--1863",
journal = "Historical Life Course Studies",
issn = "2352-6343",
publisher = "European Historical Population Samples Network (EHPS-Net)",
}