Holding Out Hope: A recently expanded database compiles thousands of advertisements placed by formerly enslaved persons seeking family members lost in slavery.

Authors :: CLEAVER, MOLLY REID
Source :: Historic New Orleans Collection Quarterly; Fall2018, Vol. 35 Issue 4, p6-7, 2p
Publication Year :: 2018
Abstract: The article offers information on a database which compiles thousands of advertisements placed by formerly enslaved persons looking for family members lost in slavery in the U.S. The advertisements appeared several newspapers around the country, including the "Advocate," in a column called "Lost Friends." The database was created in 2014, as part of the planning for the 2015 exhibition "Purchased Lives: New Orleans and the Domestic Slave Trade, 1808-1865."

Subjects :: DATABASES
PRINT advertising
SLAVERY in the United States
ENSLAVED African Americans
HISTORICAL source material
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