Massive New Database Coming to Identify Enslaved Americans & Descendants

Michigan State University has just announced a project, supported by a $15 million grant from the Mellon Foundation, to compile an online hub of databases from around the world to help identify African-American slaves and their descendants.

The website Open Culture published this important article on 23 January 2018 at http://www.openculture.com/2018/01/massive-new-slave-trade-database-will-finally-allow-us-to-identify-african-american-slaves-and-their-descendants.html. This project promises to be one of the most important online endeavors for African-American researchers and historians.

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