Recent Lecture at Amherst College Details Its Ties to Slavery
Ancestry has made the records of the Freedmen’s Bureau available in the world’s largest digitized and searchable format…FOR FREE!
Trask 250
Welcome to the Freedmen’s Bureau
Ancestry has made the records of the Freedmen’s Bureau available in the world’s largest digitized and searchable format…FOR FREE!
Trask 250 – Five Thousand Plus
Achieving a new and historic milestone for documenting a group of enslaved people and their descendants.
Trask 250 – Releasing Their Names
I’ve tracked nearly 3,000 people to the formerly enslaved of the Trask and Ventress families. Now, I’m celebrating that milestone by releasing (most of) them online.
Trask 250 – When Trask Meets Tappan
The story of a couple, the families they descend from, and the duality of their life as descendants of both slaveholders and abolitionists in the north.
