slavery in america

OSU article- The Cost of Being Black in America

Thanks aw for sending this my way… Source: http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/531012/ Description How much do white Americans think it ?costs? to be black in our society, given the problems associated with racial bias and prejudice? The answer, it appears, is not much. When white Americans were asked to imagine how much they would …

British post 3 million slave records online

I ran across this on The Black Informant’s website. Ancestry.co.uk has posted 3 million names of slaves held across the British Empire in the early 19th century, putting hundreds of thousands of pages of searchable information online to help slaves’ descendants research their past… read the rest of this post …