- The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture of the College of William and Mary and the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
- The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University
- The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
- The Reed Foundation
- The W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University
- The Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation at the University of Hull
- in consultation with UNESCO
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