Walter Hawthorne, an MSU history professor and co-director of Enslaved.org, was featured in The State News for his work to help make the lives of enslaved individuals more visible through a free digital platform that brings together records from archives around the world.
Building on earlier digital history projects, Enslaved.org connects fragmented historical documents to help reconstruct individual life stories and provide researchers, educators, and members of the public with access to information that was previously difficult to find. Through partnerships with scholars and institutions worldwide, Enslaved.org now contains information on roughly two million enslaved individuals.
Read the full story in The State News.