RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The Virginia Historical Society is creating an online database that will contain the names and personal information about formerly enslaved African-Americans. The project is ...

UC Santa Cruz has joined a newly formed consortium of institutions to ensure the preservation, stability, and future development of what has become the single most widely used online resource for ...

An international online database has launched to educate scholars and others about the history of slaves and formerly enslaved people and it's hosted by Michigan State University. Enslaved.org has ...

ATLANTA — Historians hope a new Web database will help bring millions of blacks closer to their African ancestors who were forced onto slave ships, connecting them to their heritage in a way that has ...