The North Carolina Bar Association will bestow its 2021 Law School Pro Bono Award on ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ School of Law for a student-led effort to help transcribe and digitize 18th and 19th century bills of sale of those enslaved in Guilford County.
The student-led People Not Property Project has earned ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law recognition from the North Carolina Bar Association.
ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law will be honored on June 17 with the NCBA’s 2021 Law School Pro Bono Award atÂ
Over the past two years, student volunteers have spent many dozens of hours transcribing pre-Civil War bills of sale from the Guilford County Register of Deeds Office as part of a larger effort to build a searchable database of digitized records tied to North Carolina’s history of slavery.
The People Not Property Project is a collaborative endeavor between the University of North Carolina at Greensboro University Libraries, the North Carolina Division of Archives and Records and several local registers of deeds, among others.
Since completing the transcription of Guilford County records, students have turned their focus on helping nearby communities with similar work.
Julianna Kober L’20, former president of the law school’s student program, received ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law’s David Gergen Award for Leadership & Professionalism in part for role.