Neogranadina

We are a Colombian non-profit devoted to using new technologies to protect and promote the historical heritage of Latin America.

We design and build custom scanners to digitize historical collections, create tools and platforms to make them accessible, and develop digital history projects.

Fundación Histórica Neogranadina is a non-profit foundation constituted in the Republic of Colombia. N.I.T. 900.861.407. © 2024 Neogranadina
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Routes of enslavement in the highlands of Colombia

A digital platform to bring together materials pertaining to the slave trade in Tunja and Rionegro

Summary

Building on a 2002 UNESCO-funded initiative by the Colombian National Archives and its international partners to identify and describe materials on the slave trade in Tunja and other regional archives, and with funding from the University of California Routes of Enslavement MRPI, Neogranadina have been working to create a digital platform that brings together digitized materials about the slave trade in the highlands of Colombia alongside detailed metadata, finding aids and pedagogical resources for new audiences. The prototype is being build around digitized materials from the Archivo Histórico de Tunja and the Archivo Histórico de Rionegro.

Achievements

The project is in its initial stage.

Partners

  • Luis Felipe Vélez Pérez
  • Sebastián Pérez Calle
  • Archivo Histórico de Rionegro
  • Margarita Escudero

Funding

University of California Routes of Enslavement in the Americas MRPI