Despite its nearly two centuries of long history of slavery, the Bronx’s history of enslavement remains strikingly under-studied. No monograph has been published on the subject, and only a small number of academic articles address any aspect of this history.  

The Bronx Hidden Histories project was created to address this absence. 

This digital humanities initiative brings together archival research, mapping technologies, and community collaboration to recover the lives of African-descended people who were enslaved in the Bronx during the colonial period. Rather than treating these individuals as footnotes to a broader narrative, the project centers them as historical actors whose lives shaped the geography and economy of the borough.