NEWS AND EVENTS
GSU Receives $500,000 Grant To Preserve Gullah Geechee Heritage
A new $500,000 Mellon grant will allow Georgia State University to develop archival, historical and cultural research to protect Gullah Geechee heritage and communities in Georgia and South Carolina.
GSU Database of Enslaved People’s Names, Locations now Available to Public
Dr. Elizabeth J. West, a co-director of the CSAD 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.
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