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Building a digital archive for decaying paper documents, preserving centuries of records about enslaved people

  • Written by Daniel Genkins, Postdoctoral Fellow in History, Vanderbilt University
Converting aging paper documents to digital archives can be a painstaking effort.Slave Societies Digital Archive, CC BY-ND

Paper documents are still priceless records of the past, even in a digital world. Primary sources stored in local archives throughout Latin America, for example, describe a centuries-old multiethnic society grappling with...

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