In January 2013, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth began work on identifying, cataloging, and digitizing thousands of anti-slavery petitions collected in the Archives. The goal of the project, which is funded by a National Endowment for the Humanities grant, is to provide access to previously unseen documents written between 1783 and … Continue reading Unrolling the Past: The Digital Archive of Massachusetts Anti-Slavery and Anti-Segregation Petitions