When:
February 27, 2015 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
2015-02-27T16:00:00-05:00
2015-02-27T18:00:00-05:00
Where:
Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South
1730 Cambridge St
Cambridge MA

The Digital Archive of Massachusetts Anti-Slavery & Anti-Segregation Petitions

When:
February 27, 2015 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
2015-02-27T16:00:00-05:00
2015-02-27T18:00:00-05:00
Where:
Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South
1730 Cambridge St
Cambridge MA

This event will introduce a searchable online database of about 3,500 anti-slavery and anti-segregation petitions sent to the Massachusetts colonial and state legislatures from the years 1649 to 1870, now located at the Massachusetts Archives.

Each petition image is annotated with detailed information, and the dataset provides web-based browsing, searching, and filtering, along with images of the digitized documents. The images and associated metadata will be distributed by the Harvard Dataverse Network and will be made publicly available for the first time at this event.

This event is free and open to the public. The database is made possible through the generous support of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Harvard University Libraries, the Institutional Development Initiative, and the Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences.