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Race & Slave Petition Project 1776-1867
DearREADERS,
The scope of the compiled research from original courthouse records covers slave
records from 1776-1867. This massive effort earned Nicole Mazgaj, Loren
Schweninger, and Marguerite Howell a $200,000 grant to digitally archive their
findings.
"Genealogists may know their family history
and that they were enslaved by so and so, and their ancestors lived on this
plantation, but they may not know that one of their relatives was a cook or a
carpenter or suffered a disease. These documents tell a lot of personal
detail," Howell said. "They fill in the gaps a little bit and give a face to
the individuals."
[...] "Schweninger's Race and Slavery
Petitions Project 1776-1867 is a compilation of 17,487 legislative and court
documents from 200 county courthouses in the 15 former slaveholding states and
the District of Columbia."
If you have Black ancestry in the US, you'll need
to watch the progress of this project. The full article is titled "Project
reveals details of slave life" by Tina Firesheets, Staff Writer for the
News-Record of Greensboro, North Carolina:
http://www.news-record.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050828/NEWSREC010101/508280333
Happy family tree climbing!
Myrt :)
DearMYRTLE,
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Bradenton, FL 34207
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