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Voices of formerly Enslaved Corpus
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The Voices of formerly Enslaved Corpus (Pilot) A corpus of transcribed and annotated narratives from informants who were formerly enslaved.
Description
Texts selected are mainly in vernacular English, but partly also in standard English [eng]. There are two main parts: Selection of narratives collected in the Federal Writers' Projct (FWP) collected in late 1930's and published in 1941.
Selection of narratives collected as part of the Documenting the American South Collection (DocSouth) The Corpus has been developed in collaboration with Språkbanken. For more on annotation, preparation of data, and acknowledgements see: Elmerot, I., Olsson, L.-J., & Rönnbäck, K. (2026). Voices of formerly enslaved: A new text corpus of narratives by formerly enslaved persons.Scientific Data, 13(1).
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Article number: 682 (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41597-026-07340-x. For questions about the corpus: Klas Rönnbäck klas.ronnback@econhist.gu.se If you notice any errors or inconsistencies in annotations, please report them to this email address.
Main contributors: Irene Elmerot Researcher, University of Gothenburg Leif-Jöran Olsson Senior Research Engineer, University of Gothenburg Klas Rönnbäck PI and Senior Researcher, University of Gothenburg
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- From keywords
- Computer Science & AI · Earth & Environmental Science · Humanities
- Inferred from text
- Text 75%
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