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=The Frederick Douglass Diary - A Written Rummage Project= Researchers: Andrew S.I.D. Lang and Joshua Rio-Ross

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This wiki contains the transcribed handwritten documents from The Frederick Douglass Diary, a 72 page diary kept by Frederick Douglass during his 1886-87 tour of Europe and Africa, with additional notes added in later years. The diary is part of the Frederick Douglass Papers available from the library of congress as scanned images. We present here the results of our use of Amazon's Mechanical Turk (AMT) to transcribed the diary. Details of the transcription process can be found in the senior paper report, [|Foundations of the Written Rummage: Crowdsourcing, Transcription and Prospects for the Information Age], prepared by Joshua Rio-Ross, Oral Roberts University, April 26, 2011 and our article Using Amazon Mechanical Turk to Transcribe Historical Handwritten Documents.

As described in the report above, we also used AMT to proofread the transcriptions. However, it is possible that a few errors in transcription may remain. If you find any errors, we'd love for you to contribute the corrections back to the project. Just email us at alangoru.edu with the page number, the error, and the correction.

Diary Pages

 * page1 || page10 || page19 || page28 || page37 || page46 || page55 || page64 ||
 * page2 || page11 || page20 || page29 || page38 || page47 || page56 || page65 ||
 * page3 || page12 || page21 || page30 || page39 || page48 || page57 || page66 ||
 * page4 || page13 || page22 || page31 || page40 || page49 || page58 || page67 ||
 * page5 || page14 || page23 || page32 || page41 || page50 || page59 || page68 ||
 * page6 || page15 || page24 || page33 || page42 || page51 || page60 || page69 ||
 * page7 || page16 || page25 || page34 || page43 || page52 || page61 || page70 ||
 * page8 || page17 || page26 || page35 || page44 || page53 || page62 || page71 ||
 * page9 || page18 || page27 || page36 || page45 || page54 || page63 || page72 ||