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2000:
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A conversation about slavery
with Loren Schweninger and John Hope Franklin on May 26, 2000
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with Loren Schweninger and John Hope Franklin on May 26, 2000
Dr. Loren Schweninger is an American author, researcher, and professor. He is a member of the Department of History at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and serves as director of the Race and Slavery Petitions Project, launched in 1991, designed to locate, collect, organize, and publish all extant relevant legislative petitions from the fifteen states and the District of Columbia, during the period from the American Revolution through the Civil War.
Schweninger’s Petitions Project has received multi-year grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation. The project is currently finishing the letterpress and microfilm editions for county court petitions. Recently, the Project also received a $200,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to create a Digital Library on Slavery.
Source - University of North Carolina Greensboro http://www.uncg.edu/his/docs/Schweninger_index.html
