In 1787, at a time when slavery was crucial to the prosperity and expansion of New York, the New York African Free School was created by the New York Manumission Society, a group dedicated to advocating for African Americans. This site showcases selections from the collection that help tell the story of the school and of African American New York in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Site features an XML-driven interactive collection of archival images and literary works, interactive map and timeline, biographies  and classroom guides.

Year: 2006

Client: New-York Historical Society

What I did: wireframes, visual design, interaction design, HTML/CSS development, XML data integration, Flash ActionScript programming