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Help Make the 19th Century Searchable

In 1847, Frederick Douglass started a newspaper advocating the abolition of slavery that ran until 1851. After the Civil War, there was a newspaper for freed slaves, the Freedmen’s Record. The Internet Archive is bringing these and many more works online for free public access. But there’s a problem: Our Optical…
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Aug 22, 2020Help Make the 19th Century Searchable by polm2316938

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