early modern historian, following civet cats and other species - humans included - through time and space, animal resources, racialization of hair, multispecies history / assistant professor , University of Lucerne
Sarah-Maria Schober
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One more week! Send us hairy histories 🙏💚! #skystorians #earlymodern
Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents.
I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.