The names of 107,000 people held in bondage in Louisiana from 1719-1820 were gathered from the Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy database created by historian Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, whose work made an enormous contribution to the history of slavery in the Americas. Hall graduated from Newcomb College of Tulane University in 1949, completed graduate work at Mexico City College and the University of Michigan, married political activist and scholar Harry Haywood in 1956, taught history for many years, and retired from Rutgers University in 1996. Her academic career included seminal works such as Africans in Colonial Louisiana and Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas, and she received numerous honors and awards including a Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships, and the John Hope Franklin Prize. Beginning in 1984, her Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy database, covering 1719-1820, became one of the very first original digital humanities projects.