New database reconstructs lives of America’s enslaved
A new digital database, Enslaved.org, features information on people, events, and places involved in the transatlantic slave trade. The platform has over 613,000 entries from archives, libraries, museums, and other databases. Most of this information is just one piece of a person's life. The website aims to help researchers put…
People enslaved at Monticello now represented in programming
It’s long been known that Thomas Jefferson had a relationship with Sally Hemings, an enslaved woman at the Founding Father’s Monticello plantation. Monticello is now a museum, but mentions of Hemings and other people enslaved there have been spare. Now more of their voices are being heard at Monticello. An…
New African-American history and culture museum wrestles with what to include
The National Museum of African American History and Culture will open in September 2016 in Washington, D.C., and many in the public are raising questions about which families will be featured in the museum. Some believe that the museum should feature the most prominent African-American families in the nation. The…
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