We have already completed many searches based on questions we are often asked. In these essays and lists, records on a topic are instantly presented to you with accompanying explanations. The first group of essays […]

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The Academy for Critical Incident Analysis, at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, has been established with the support of the Dart Foundation, to promote and disseminate scholarly research relating to the […]

A critical Incident is a relatively brief occurrence involving injury, loss, conflict, discovery or change of significant proportion, usually unscripted and unanticipated, with the potential to alter existing […]

The New Jersey Slavery Records Index is a searchable compilation of records that identify individual enslaved persons and their owners, beginning as early as 1525 and ending during the Civil War.

Our data […]

Monday, April 30
Lunch: 12:00 PM
12:30 Greetings from ACIA Leadership: Ned Benton and Glenn Corbett
ACIA History: Frank Ochberg
Logistic Concerns: Victor Herbert; Lisa Rodriguez

Session One: 1:00-3:00
The […]

The Academy for Critical Incident Analysis is convening a case conference on  the mass shooting that took place on October 1, 2017. Attendance and participation is limited to  invited persons who experienced the i […]

The Academy for Critical Incident Analysis, at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, has been established with the support of the Dart Foundation, to promote and disseminate scholarly research relating to the […]

We have created easy and fast “TAG” searches that produce interesting topical results, such as the names of slave ship investors, records of slave sales, or the slaveholding status of NY State Senators. We also […]

by Ned Benton
How did John Cox and Andrew Cole escape from slavery in Mamaroneck Township during the 1770s and end up on Nova Scotia? The story of these two men, whose connection to Mamaroneck had been lost for […]

by Ned Benton
How did John Cox and Andrew Cole escape from slavery in Mamaroneck Township during the 1770s and end up on Nova Scotia? The story of these two men, whose connection to Mamaroneck had been lost for […]

The Louisiana Slave Trade Database consists of more than 100,000 records of slave trade transactions from 1719 through about 1820.

We have indexed in the NY Slavery Records Index the records of trades of 10 […]

The Louisiana Slave Trade Database consists of more than 100,000 records of slave trade transactions from 1719 through about 1820.

We have indexed in the NY Slavery Records Index the records of trades of 32 […]

By Ned Benton

In the 1790s, slavery abolitionists faced a major political and legal barrier: many of the members of the New York State Senate were slave-holders. We have set up two search tags – “SEN1790” and […]

By Ned Benton

In the 1790s, slavery abolitionists faced a major political and legal barrier: many of the members of the New York State Senate were slave-holders. We have set up two search tags – “SEN1790” and […]

By Ned Benton (draft 7/4/2017)

Sojourner Truth, an abolitionist and advocate for rights for women, was born as an enslaved person and named Isabella Baumfree. She endured slavery in New York from 1797 to 1828 […]