Corpus Voices of the formerly Enslaved

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.seOpens in a new tab 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