10 Million Names

ABC News' chief justice correspondent takes a look at his family tree with the project that recovers the names of people of African descent enslaved in the U.S. before the end of the Civil War.

ABC News' Alex Presha speaks with key scholars of the "10 million names" project, which aims to shed light on the history and legacy of slavery in America.

The "10 Million Names Project” is using genealogy to identify the names of people once enslaved to give Black Americans information about their family history.

'10 Million Names' project uses ancestry research to shed light on U.S. history.

Read more about his visit through the 10 Million Names Project.

The project is working to recover the names of people enslaved before 1865.

The project goal: ID every person enslaved before 1865 in the present-day U.S.