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Dominion grant funds slavery database
Unknown No Longer: A Database of Va. Slave Names
Updated: Monday, 06 Feb 2012, 10:13 PM EST
Published : Monday, 06 Feb 2012, 10:10 PM EST
HAMPTON, Va. (WAVY) - Dominion Virginia Power is helping people learn more about the individuals who were enslaved in Virginia.
The power company's foundation gave the Virginia Historical Society a $100,000 grant to fund Unknown No Longer: A Database of Virginia Slave Names. The free website allows users to track slavery information from millions of processed manuscripts.
Around 200 people showed up to a workshop held in Hampton Monday night to learn how to use the database.
For most, the only physical record of their existence may be a name in a register kept by a slave owner. Users can search the site with keywords, such as name, gender, location, occupation and plantation. Unknown No Longer also includes images of original source documents.
Click here to check out the database for yourself.
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