The project, a collaborative effort involving six institutions, aims to digitize and make publicly available the legal records documenting enslaved persons in Mississippi and beyond.
African American families seeking to trace their ancestry back to the 1800s can now do so, thanks to a new and improved collaborative effort from a few libraries and Mississippi universities working together to bridge the information gap.
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