A corpus of transcribed and annotated narratives of formerly enslaved people mainly in U.S.A..
The Corpus Voices of the formerly Enslaved (Pilot)
A corpus of transcribed and annotated narratives from informants who were formerly enslaved. Texts are partly in standard English and partly in vernacular English [eng]. There are three 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) , and thirdly
- Songs and narratives collected for the corpus Afro-Diasporic Text Corpus Project (AATC).
The Corpus has been developed in collaboration with Språkbanken Text.
For more on annotation, preparation of data, and acknowledgements see:
- IE, LJO, KR. (202x). Corpus Voices of the formerly Enslaved Pilot v0.1. [Where], pp nn--nn.
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