Updated on Feb. 20, 2025, at 2:02 p.m.
A team of Georgia State University researchers have been working together to uncover the names and locations of where more than 5,000 enslaved persons and their enslavers lived in Harris County, Georgia, before the Civil War.
It’s all for a pilot project called the Data Mining and Mapping Antebellum Georgia. The project was led by Elizabeth J. West, a professor of English and co-director of Georgia State University’s Center for Studies on Africa and Its Diaspora.
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