The 17-acre site combines historical artifacts, contemporary art, original research, and first-person narratives to explore the institution of slavery, the lives of enslaved people, and the legacy of slavery in the U.S.
It uses research from the 1870 Census -the first time formerly enslaved Black people were able to formally record a surname -to list over 122,000 surnames that nearly five million Black people adopted at the time.
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