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For many Black Americans, tracing one’s family roots back more than 150 years has been nearly impossible due to a lack of adequate data and documentation from the slavery period. Now, a team of researchers, genealogists and scholars are working together to recover and restore this lost history, which is American history. ABC News is the exclusive media partner of the historic 10 Million Names Project, an ambitious moon shot initiative that aims to recover the names of the 10 million people of African descent who were enslaved before 1865 in the present-day United States.

For many Black Americans, tracing one’s family roots back more than 150 years has been nearly impossible due to a lack of adequate data and documentation from the slavery period. Now, a team of researchers, genealogists and scholars are working together to recover and restore this lost history, which is American history. ABC News is the exclusive media partner of the historic 10 Million Names Project, an ambitious moon shot initiative that aims to recover the names of the 10 million people of African descent who were enslaved before 1865 in the present-day United States.

As my daughters and i toured the former plantation where my enslaved great-grandfather coleman sharpton lived we were reminded of what we are still fighting for all these years later. how far we've come. how much further we have left to go. we understood it as we walked the grounds where he was forced to work we saw it in the beams that our answer sisters set in the enslavers house and we felt it as we stood in the stack, untold numbers of enslaved black people lived doctor field the 10 million names project, helps descendants of enslaved back americans uncover the history. from your research ...

Winner of the Minnesota 2023 Book awards for general nonfiction, Wilhelm's way took first time author Teresa Wilhelm Waldof ten years to write

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