Data Repository for To Enter Africa from America: The United States, Africa, and the New Imperialism, 1862-1919
How to Use This Repository: This repository is intended for use with the CDRH API and the To Enter Africa from America Ruby on Rails application.
Data Repo: https://github.com/CDRH/data_teaa
Source Files: TEI XML, HTML, CSV, JSON
The personography and Images are populated via CSV's downloaded from Google Sheets:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KN06GKm2XucbCUl49alPFP89GUtJO6hTZ4fQ3urJZlE/edit#gid=0
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-Nk0eIBSmQVvV1toGWyGS9Pg_ALbcyPqhE-5nZn1CkY/edit#gid=0
Script Languages: Ruby, JavaScript
Encoding Schema: Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines
To Enter Africa from America: The United States, Africa, and the New Imperialism, 1862-1919 is a collaborative interpretive scholarly work that analyzes American responses to and representations of the exploration and colonization of, migration to, and missionary work in Africa — all of which were part of a larger transnational discourse on the African Question — from 1862 to 1919. The project explores the extent to which American involvement in Africa — whether state-sponsored or as a result of initiatives taken by individuals — contribute to, interact with, influence, and/or complicate U.S. race relations with African Americans.
TEAA takes its title from a passage in the 1877 article "America in Africa" published by Gilbert Haven, a bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He argued that the United States should take an active interest in Africa because European designs on the continent threatened to subjugate Africans and exploit the region's natural resources. Haven called on America to "enter Africa" more vigorously as the United States had both an African presence at home (African Americans) and an American constituency in Africa (Americo-Liberians). Seizing on Haven's notion of "entry" in a theoretical sense, TEAA investigates the various means (physical, political, ideological, religious, and literary), sites, and moments of U.S. engagement with Africa.
As a collaborative digital research project, TEAA utilizes and interprets government documents, periodical materials, literature (plays, poems, and novels) and visual culture (photographs, maps, cartoons, and sketches) to visualize, analyze, and interpret American engagement with the African Question in terms of race, national identity, empire, and modernity.
An earlier iteration of this project was titled Locating Lord Greystoke: U.S. Empire, Race, & the African Question, 1847-1919, at greystoke.unl.edu.
Project Site: https://africafromamerica.unl.edu/
Rails Repo: https://github.com/CDRH/teaa
Credits: https://africafromamerica.unl.edu/about
Work to Be Done: https://github.com/CDRH/teaa/issues
Project staff transcribed documents using scanned images of the original material. Unless otherwise specified in the metadata, we aim to reproduce the text of each document as exactly as possible. This includes the retention of original spelling and punctuation. Any gaps or uncertain readings of text are marked accordingly. Place names and ethnographic names have not been modernized or corrected and are presented as they appear in the documents.
ssh into cdrhdev1.unl.edu
ssh USERNAME@cdrhdev1.unl.edu
pull changes to repo (ask for help if you need to set up ssh key or follow directions on the github ssh page)
cd /var/local/www/data/collections/teaa
git pull
generate new html
post -x html
post files to index
post
If you have made a lot of changes, especially any file deletion, you should clear the TEAA files before you post:
es_clear_index
See project site Technical information page
See the Datura documentation for general updating and posting instructions.
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