Freedom on the Move is supported by the following funders:

Freedom on the Move does not accept funding that comes with ideological strings, or that impairs the freedom of inquiry necessary to carry out legitimate historical work.

One of the major impediments to the development of this archive has been the extractive behavior of for-profit corporations that digitize historic newspapers. They charge enormous fees to university libraries who want to have access to this database. They have blocked the use of their database for projects like ours. They have attempted to extract additional money for the public and/or scholarly use of these ads. We are making these ads free in particular because we refuse this effort to extract still more money from ads that paid newspaper publishers, professional slave-catchers, jailers, and other actors in the system of racialized and capitalist slavery. We welcome support from entities and individuals who support the goal of naming, learning, and honoring those who sought freedom.