Local Black History Project, Including UMass Amherst Researchers, Among Recipients of Major NEH Grant Expanding Public Access to Records on the History of Slavery

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Photo courtesy of the Lyman & Merrie Wood Museum of Springfield History, Springfield, Massachusetts.

A team of UMass Amherst faculty, librarians, staff, and students and their partners at the Pioneer Valley History Network (PVHN) are among the partnering projects awarded $349,803 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in support of the project “Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade,” also known as Enslaved.org, which is an open-access website affiliated with Michigan State University that publishes datasets and biographical narratives with information about the lives of individuals who suffered under slavery and who were part of the transatlantic slave trade.

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