Building a digital archive for decaying paper documents, preserving centuries of records about enslaved people
- Written by Daniel Genkins, Postdoctoral Fellow in History, Vanderbilt University
Converting aging paper documents to digital archives can be a painstaking effort.Slave Societies Digital Archive, CC BY-NDPaper documents are still priceless records of the past, even in a digital world. Primary sources stored in local archives throughout Latin America, for example, describe a centuries-old multiethnic society grappling with...