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Arts
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
2 weeks ago

Manumission digitisation project reveals grim story of slavery in Brazil

A collaborative research project digitized over 300,000 manumission papers from 19th-century Bahia archives, creating a database that reveals slavery and emancipation complexities while enabling descendants of enslaved people to reconstruct their ancestral histories.
Miscellaneous
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 months ago

Canadian Inconvenient Indian' author Thomas King says he is not Indigenous

Thomas King learned genealogical research found no Cherokee ancestry in his family and says he accepts those findings.
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