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History
fromHarvard Gazette
1 day ago

Harvard releases information on 1,613 individuals enslaved by leaders, faculty, or staff - Harvard Gazette

A public database identifies 1,613 enslaved people tied to Harvard from 1636–1865, including enslavers and documented dates to support descendant family-history recovery.
Arts
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
2 months ago

Manumission digitisation project reveals grim story of slavery in Brazil

A collaborative research project digitized over 300,000 manumission papers from 19th-century Bahia archives, creating a database that reveals slavery and emancipation complexities while enabling descendants of enslaved people to reconstruct their ancestral histories.
Miscellaneous
fromwww.theguardian.com
5 months ago

Canadian Inconvenient Indian' author Thomas King says he is not Indigenous

Thomas King learned genealogical research found no Cherokee ancestry in his family and says he accepts those findings.
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