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Fugitive Data Portraits: Self-Emancipation in Virginia With Te’vn Powers October 25, 2025

Saturday, October 25, 2025
Fugitive Data Portraits Flyer

October 25, 2025
11am – 1pm
Free, Registration required:
https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/3b32d88/lp/4b10323f-c66c-4660-aa2e-522a9e4ac8ed

Description: As part of National Archives Month, the Black History Museum & Cultural Center of Virginia presents a special program exploring how digital tools and archival methodologies can illuminate Black resistance and reframe the historical record. This program features Te’vn Powers—software engineer, data scientist, linguist, and 2024 Public Humanities Fellow—who will present Fugitive Data Portraits: Self-Emancipation in Virginia, an award-winning digital history project that transforms archival fragments into vivid, human-centered “data portraits.” Drawing on runaway ads, county ledgers, military records, and the testimonies of abolitionists like William Still, Powers animates the lives of enslaved Virginians who self-emancipated. Through data visualizations, mapping, and narrative interpretation, the project charts patterns of fugitivity and survival across Virginia’s social landscape.

  • Type: Black History Museum
  • Time: October 25, 2025 - 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
  • Duration:2 hours

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