it is cohosted by the library of , thenia in richmond university of virginia center for civil war history. >> many of you may know lauranett in her former capacity as curator at the virginia historical society where she x --ed over a dozen exhibitions. one of her best accompaniment was her role as historian for the digital genealogy project "unknown no longer: a database of virginia slave names."

it is cohosted by the library of , thenia in richmond university of virginia center for civil war history. >> many of you may know lauranett in her former capacity as curator at the virginia historical society where she x --ed over a dozen exhibitions. one of her best accompaniment was her role as historian for the digital genealogy project "unknown no longer: a database of virginia slave names." throughout her career as a curator, historian, and consultant, lauranett has focused on the lives of people, primarily african-americans, in thee first enslaved colonies, to the war of emancipation, in the modern era. readers of the "richmond times-dispatch" also know her from the front page of monday's paper after she was honored on sunday with the john jasper trailblazer award at mount sinabung church. addition to late our panel and we are grateful to her for filling in for our scheduled speaker. i will say a few other short words about lauranett. she and i have been friends for -- long time.ord probably at least 20 years. there are not a lot of women of color who pursue this work, and we find