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Published November 2, 2023 | Version v2
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O Say Can You See: Early Washington, D.C., Law and Family Project

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Description

Description

This site documents the challenge to slavery and the quest for freedom in early Washington, D.C., by collecting, digitizing, making accessible, and analyzing freedom suits filed between 1800 and 1862,as well as tracing the multigenerational family networks they reveal.

Details

Resource type Open dataset
Title O Say Can You See: Early Washington, D.C., Law and Family Project
Creators
  • Thomas, William G.
  • Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
    • License(s) Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported
    External Resource https://earlywashingtondc.org/about/data