From prnewswire.com comes an article about the "10 Million Names Project, a collaboration between American Ancestors, family historians, African American scholars, and cultural institutions. The project will gather names of millions of persons enslaved in what is now the US from the 1500s to 1865. The data available so far can be found at 10millionnames.org/
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Slave surnames
This article from the theroot.com explains why determining the surname of an enslaved person can be difficult.
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