Software, E-Resource Transcription dataset from the Black South Carolinians' Petition for Equal Rights, Justin S. Morrill Papers, Manuscript Division By the People transcription campaign title : We the undersigned : Black South Carolinians' Petition for Equal Rights, 1865
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Title
- Transcription dataset from the Black South Carolinians' Petition for Equal Rights, Justin S. Morrill Papers, Manuscript Division
Other Title
- By the People transcription campaign title : We the undersigned : Black South Carolinians' Petition for Equal Rights, 1865
Summary
- This dataset is an export of transcriptions for 112 images of a petition contained in the Justin S. Morrill Papers in the Manuscript Division. The transcriptions were created by volunteers participating in the Library of Congress crowdsourcing program By the People (https://crowd.loc.gov) campaign We the Undersigned: Black South Carolinians Petition for Equal Rights, 1865. It contains text created by volunteers through a transcription and review process, volunteer-created tags, digital collections metadata, and metadata representing the arrangement of the items in the By the People platform, Concordia.
- The dataset includes transcriptions and data generated from the pages in the By the People campaign We the Undersigned: Black South Carolinians Petition for Equal Rights, 1865 (https://crowd.loc.gov/campaigns/undersigned/). The campaign consisted of digitized images of all pages of an 1865 petition located in the Justin S. Morrill Papers (https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/collmss.ms000122), which was transcribed in its entirety. The petition extends fifty-four feet in length and contains the names of 3,740 African American residents of South Carolina urging the U.S. Congress to ensure voting rights would be secured to them in a new South Carolina state constitution. See the Justin S. Morrill Papers finding aid (https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009307) for additional context about Morrill and his collection.
- This dataset includes: 2020449287.zip - a zip file containing a CSV file and a README file -- undersigned_2023-09-29.csv - a .CSV containing campaign, project, item, itemID, asset, and asset status metadata, as well as an image URL, the volunteer-created transcriptions, and volunteer-created tags. This .CSV is the direct export of the We the Undersigned: Black South Carolinians Petition for Equal Rights, 1865 campaign.
Names
- Morrill, Justin S. (Justin Smith), 1810-1898
- By the People (Program), compiler
Created / Published
- Washington, D.C. : By the People, Library of Congress, 2023.
Headings
- - African Americans--Suffrage--South Carolina
- - African Americans--Civil rights--South Carolina
- - South Carolina--Politics and government--19th century
- - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Genre
- Data sets
Notes
- - "Dataset created 2023-09-29."--README file.
- - Title from README file.
Medium
- 1 online resource (dataset)
Call Number/Physical Location
- JK1929.A2
Repository
- s-Online Electronic Resource
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2020449287
Online Format
- compressed data