A team of researchers from Georgia State University and Troy University in Alabama have worked on a research initiative that explores historical data—the names and locations—of more than 5,000 enslaved people from Georgia and other southern states. The data they compiled predates the Civil War, and the pilot project is called the Data Mining and Mapping Antebellum Georgia.
Dr. Elizabeth J. West, a co-director of Georgia State University’s Center for Studies on Africa and Its Diaspora, and Dr. Ras Michael Brown, a co-principal investigator for the project, were guests on Wednesday’s edition of “Closer Look.”
They discussed updates about their research project, including their just-released database, which allows users to locate specific records and visually map historic data.
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