University of New Orleans: Freedom on Move Receives Mellon Foundation Grant to Help Create 'Freedom's Loom,' An Expanded Database
July 29, 2020
July 29, 2020
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, July 29 -- The University of New Orleans issued the following news release on July 28:
Freedom on the Move, an online database that seeks to document the lives of fugitives from North American slavery using newspaper ads placed by enslavers, has received a $150,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to expand on that work.
University of New Orleans history professor Mary Niall Mitchell is a lead historian for the online project that is de . . .
Freedom on the Move, an online database that seeks to document the lives of fugitives from North American slavery using newspaper ads placed by enslavers, has received a $150,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to expand on that work.
University of New Orleans history professor Mary Niall Mitchell is a lead historian for the online project that is de . . .