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July 13, 2015 10:06 pm PDT
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Database: Old newspaper ads searching for loved ones lost to slavery
The Southwestern Christian Advocate ran its "Lost Friends" page from 1877 until "well into the first decade of the twentieth century."
The Historic New Orleans Collection has scanned 330 of these ads and made them available in a searchable database.
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