Philly Middle Passage Project

The Lost Story of Julia Chinn > KET Julia Chinn had a major impact on politics in Kentucky and America in the 1800s, but few people will recognize her name or the role she played. “She’s literally been …

November 7, 1841, 128 enslaved Africans took over "The Creole" and sailed to Freedom.

When Enslaved People Commandeered a Ship and Hightailed it to Freedom in the Bahamas It's been called the most successful slave rebellion in U.S. history

Between Two Worlds: Black Women and the Fight for Voting Rights (U.S. National Park Service) Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library Digital Collections.

These Divers Search For Slave Shipwrecks and Discover Their Ancestors | National Geographic Meet a group of vibrant scuba divers determined to find, document and positively identify slave shipwrecks. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe ...

Building a digital archive for decaying paper documents, preserving centuries of records about enslaved people Centuries' worth of important information is stored on paper – which can decay, burn or get eaten by pests. Peek inside the process of making all that data digital.