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St. Louis Washington University Digitizes Pre-Civil War Slave Records for Computers

October 27, 2009

Washington University, St. Louis, MO, reports it has received one of the largest grants in the school’s history to digitize pre-Civil War lawsuits from slaves that sued slave-holders in the Saint Louis Circuit Court.
The grant will require 30 staff members from the library and two years to complete.  The university formally calls the project St. [...]

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