“HISTORY® Partners With FamilySearch on Freedmen’s Bureau Project”

“HISTORY® Partners With FamilySearch on Freedmen’s Bureau Project” May 30, 2016

 

Early 19th century painting of slave
John Philip Simpson, “The Captive Slave” (1827)

 

This Church project represents a major investment in African-American family history:

 

http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/history-familysearch-freedmens-bureau-project

 

And, as you’ve noticed in the article, it will be pushed in connection with a national television miniseries launching tonight on the History Channel:

 

http://roots.history.com/identity/reading-for-roots

 

I’m excited to see it — both the miniseries and the project.  I’m very pleased that Roots, which had an enormous impact when it was first published and then first turned into a miniseries, is now being done again.  May its influence surge yet further.

 

 


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