Frederick Douglass Transcribe-a-thon

Over two-dozen various members of the Villanova community celebrated Frederick Douglass' 200th birthday with a Transcribe-a-thon of Freedmen's Bureau Papers.  Established in 1865 to assist in the reconstruction of the South and to aid formerly enslaved individuals transition to freedom, the Freedman’s Bureau received letters, poems, labor contracts, etc., all handwritten by formerly enslaved individuals.