Source: Georgia Tech Digital Humanities Lab
URL: Networks of Freedom
For the past several years, the DH Lab has been working on a project, TOME, aimed at visualizing the themes in a corpus of nineteenth-century newspapers. In designing this tool, our central motivation was to be able to more clearly trace the various and often conflicting conversations about slavery and its abolition that were taking place in these papers, which spanned multiple audiences and communities. (More info here). Around the same time, a team at the University of Delaware launched the Colored Conventions Project, aimed at recovering the advocacy work performed at the Colored Conventions–organizing meetings in which Black Americans, fugitive…
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