If you are researching Black ancestry in Nashville, you will be interested in a new spreadsheet listing more than 14,000 rows of data, which might bore you – until the names stop you cold: Eliza, age 3; Peter, 11; Martha Foster, 1. After each, it reads “child of Albert and Betsy.” On Nov. 1, 1852, …
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Enslaved People’s Records Show a Grim, but Needed, Look at What Made Nashville
If you are researching Black ancestry in Nashville, you will be interested in a new spreadsheet listing more than 14,000 rows of data, which might bore you – until the names stop you cold: Eliza, age 3; Peter, 11; Martha Foster, 1. After each, it reads “child of Albert and Betsy.” On Nov. 1, 1852, …
Jackson State (Mississippi) Receives Getty Images Grant to Digitally Archive Collection
Jackson State is one of the inaugural recipients of Getty Images grants to help historically Black colleges and universities digitize their photo archives to preserve the photos and help document Black history at the universities. “The goal is that everybody knows what we have,” Locord Wilson, Jackson State University interim dean of libraries, said Thursday, …