MORROW — Mere days after a gunman claimed nine lives at Emmanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church — an historically black church in Charleston, S.C., built out of the ambition of the abolitionist movement — a new project is afoot.
Officials kicked off a national endeavor to digitally index the names of newly-freed slaves and Civil War refugees catalogued in the National Archives. It is called the Freedmen’s Bureau Project.
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