"In order to bring to life a once-bustling enclave of skilled slaves called Mulberry Row, the museum has launched a mobile app — called Slavery at Monticello — that helps visitors visualize the space, stretching along a 1,000-foot path to the south side of the presidential villa in Charlottesville, Va.
The geolocated app, which is free, allows visitors to explore the history of the patch of ground they are standing on...
despite decades of archeological digs and an oral history project that has gathered interviews with more than 100 descendants, these powerful stories have yet to find a physical home."
http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/08/02/428126511/an-app-tells-painful-stories-of-slaves-at-monticellos-mulberry-row?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20150802
It also looks really beautiful.
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