Tessa Murphy is an associate history professor in the Maxwell School, while Michael Fudge is a professor of practice in the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University. They have partnered on a unique, interdisciplinary research project to create a searchable database of more than 16,000 former enslaved people in the Great Britain colony of St. Lucia in 1815. The project, "Slavery in the Age of Abolition," uses slave registries from nineteenth-century British Crown colonies in order to reconstruct the life histories and genealogies of people enslaved on the expanding frontiers of the British Empire in what is commonly referred to as the age of abolition. Murphy and Fudge discuss how the project came to be, the arduous task of compiling their database, the challenges of digitally capturing historical records from more than 200 years ago, how this database can serve as a teaching tool for the descendants of these former slaves, and how the project provided students in both Maxwell and the iSchool with valuable real-life experience.