An App Tells Painful Stories Of Slaves At Monticello’s Mulberry Row

An App Tells Painful Stories Of Slaves At Monticello’s Mulberry Row

By Lalita Clozel

A new app uses geolocation to bring to life a lesser-known section of Thomas Jefferson’s Virginia estate — Mulberry Row, which was the bustling enclave of skilled slaves who worked at Monticello.

» E-Mail This

…read more

Via: http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/08/02/428126511/an-app-tells-painful-stories-of-slaves-at-monticellos-mulberry-row?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=us

About author

You might also like

Uncategorized 0 Comments

Lead Prosecutor Brings Ghandi-Like Attitude To Brazil’s Corruption Scandal

By Lourdes Garcia-Navarro In Brazil, one of the biggest corruption scandals in its history has an unlikely hero. He is a 35-year-old Harvard educated lawyer who says his inspiration is

Uncategorized 0 Comments

Their Country In Turmoil, Some Greeks Now Lash Out At Each Other

By Joanna Kakissis As Greeks argue about how their troubled country should reform, the debate has often turned personal and nationalistic. Some people are even accusing each other of treason.

Uncategorized 0 Comments

Undoing A Permanent ‘Oops’: Colombian Scholars Tackle Tattoo Typos

By Camila Domonoske This year’s Festival of the Word in Bogota will feature the usual authors and linguists — plus a professional tattoo artist. Some visitors can have spelling errors