From the "Finding Their Names" Project: Typical Historical Documents in Context with Slavery in the U.S. South and the Lives of Enslaved Persons -- April 17, 2025
This presentation will present analyses and brief cases studies of certain typical documents employed as legal and practical standards of institutionalized slavery in the U.S. South (and elsewhere), with the intent to center personal facts of the enslaved persons these documents describe.
The Speaker:
Will Stanier is a librarian at the University of Georgia's Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library. He is currently the project coordinator for the archival collections project, "Finding Their Names: Description and Discovery of Enslavement Events.
The webinar is on April 17, 2025 at 12:00 PM EST, 11:00 AM CDT, and 9:00 AM PST. Signing up will send you an invitation with the details and a follow up with the recording.
Your First Crowdsourcing Project -- April 24, 2025
Join Ben and Sara Brumfield of FromThePage as they step you through your first crowdsourcing project. The session covers selecting material, finding volunteers, developing transcription conventions, keeping volunteers engaged, and what to do with your transcriptions once you're done. (Plus, the latest on handwritten text recognition!)
The webinar is on April 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM EST, 11:00 AM CDT, and 9:00 AM PST. Signing up will send you an invitation with the details and a follow up with the recording.