A project run by researchers at Emory University makes hopes to identify the slaves who were brought the the Americas through their names. The project provides a database of African names of the slaves. Since African names are usually connected to certain regions of the continent, identifying a name may help identify the particular region of Africa where the slave came from. And this is where you come in: if you can identify an African name listed in the database, you are well on your way to identifying a slave. Go to the Web site and click on "African Data" for the names. Watch the video below for further demonstration.
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