{"id":548,"date":"2012-11-29T15:32:48","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T15:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2012\/?p=548"},"modified":"2012-11-29T20:37:48","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T20:37:48","slug":"rare-look-at-slaves-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2012\/rare-look-at-slaves-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare Look at Slaves\u2019 Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"imageBlock\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2012\/research-highlights\/emancipationdocs1_sm\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-296\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-296\" title=\"Emancipationdocs1_SM\" src=\"http:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2012\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Emancipationdocs1_SM-900x526.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2012\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Emancipationdocs1_SM-900x526.jpg 900w, https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2012\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Emancipationdocs1_SM-450x263.jpg 450w, https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2012\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Emancipationdocs1_SM.jpg 1899w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Top: From left, Susan Lawrence, Kenneth Winkle, Katherine Walter, Kenneth Price and Elizabeth Lorang<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Before the Emancipation Proclamation ended slavery across the South, the Compensated Emancipation Act freed all slaves in Washington, D.C. Signed in April 1862, the act produced rare documentation of the era: reimbursement petitions by former slave owners that included names and descriptions of 3,000 African Americans. With a $220,000 National Endowment for the Humanities grant, a team of UNL scholars has transcribed hundreds of petitions and published digital versions on the Civil War Washington website. History, English and libraries faculty teamed on the inter-disciplinary digital research project through UNL\u2019s Center for Digital Research in the Humanities. The documents reveal the largely overlooked story of these slaves\u2019 lives and elevate the understanding of emancipation in real, human terms, said Kenneth Winkle, Sorensen Professor of American History and project co-leader. \u201cAnd it is a remarkable story.\u201d\u00a0<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top: From left, Susan Lawrence, Kenneth Winkle, Katherine Walter, Kenneth Price and Elizabeth Lorang Before the Emancipation Proclamation ended slavery across the South, the Compensated Emancipation Act freed all slaves in Washington, D.C. Signed in April 1862, the act produced &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2012\/rare-look-at-slaves-lives\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[317,316,267,465,314,467,268,464,466,318,468,315,463],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":644,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions\/644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}