Postcards: In Brazil, descendants of slaves count their dead
FABIO TEIXEIRA, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on the plight of the 16 million people who live in Brazil’s quilombolas…
History of slaves sold for US Catholic-run university detailed in new genealogical website
RNS A genealogical association has launched a new website detailing the family histories of slaves who were sold to keep Catholic-run Georgetown University from bankruptcy in the 1800s. American Ancestors announced the new GU272 Memory Project website on 19th June, the anniversary of Juneteenth, the day in 1865 when some American slaves learned they had […]