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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

Rights Advisory

  • The text in this dataset was created by volunteers and can be used in many different ways. It is subject to no known copyright restrictions and is free to use and re-use.

Online Format

  • compressed data

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Rights & Access

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Credit Line: Library of Congress, Digital Collections Management and Services Division

Cite This Item

Citations are generated automatically from bibliographic data as a convenience, and may not be complete or accurate.

Chicago citation style:

Morrill, Justin S. Transcription dataset from the Black South Carolinians' Petition for Equal Rights, Justin S. Morrill Papers, Manuscript Division. composeds by By The People Iler Washington, D.C.: By the People, Library of Congress, 2023. Software, E-Resource. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2020449287/.

APA citation style:

Morrill, J. S. (2023) Transcription dataset from the Black South Carolinians' Petition for Equal Rights, Justin S. Morrill Papers, Manuscript Division. By The People Iler, comp Washington, D.C.: By the People, Library of Congress. [Software, E-Resource] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2020449287/.

MLA citation style:

Morrill, Justin S. Transcription dataset from the Black South Carolinians' Petition for Equal Rights, Justin S. Morrill Papers, Manuscript Division. comp by By The People Iler Washington, D.C.: By the People, Library of Congress, 2023. Software, E-Resource. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2020449287/>.