An ambitious new project aims to recover the names of approximately 10 million women, men and children of African descent who were enslaved in what became the United States.
The 10 Million Names project includes a"call to action," where anyone is invited to come forward and share family records that could amplify written and oral histories.For centuries, access to the Black American story has been severely limited by the lack of genealogical records of enslaved African Americans and their descendants.
Those 10 million people have approximately 44 million living descendants, according to Kendra Field, Ph.D., the initiative’s chief historian."All of us face greater challenges, significantly greater difficulty, than do most white Americans when it comes to tracing our ancestors," Field told ABC News.
The goal of "10 Million Names" is to identify the real names of individuals lost to this tragic history and restore their dignity, as well as their descendants."Before roughly the mid-20th century, data about enslaved Africans and their descendants was really hard to locate. It was often obscured or erased or difficult to find. During that same period, descendants from, say, Mayflower, had access to a whole different set of tools and documents," Field said.
"It's impossible to tell the story of the founding of this country without telling the story of our Black brothers and sisters, and specifically our enslaved ancestors. These are our American ancestors. They helped build this country. These are my forefathers and everybody else's forefathers," Cellini said.
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