What is the value that Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive brings compared to other available resources in this area?
Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive provides the unique opportunity to search across several content types in one place, by keyword/metadata for manuscripts, books and pamphlets, newspapers and periodicals, U.S. Supreme Court records and briefs, and other legal documents and by full-text for all documents except manuscripts. The extensive volume of manuscript digitized, over 700,000 pages, is unparalleled. We have used the metadata available in the finding aids but have also enriched the metadata by adding at a minimum dates and document types and have segmented the collection by manually identifying each item. Once completed, this digital collection will comprise five million pages of documents (ten times the content of its closest competitor) — the most ambitious project of its kind.
