Join us Valentine’s Day to celebrate 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. We will digitize Black history together in this nationwide project organized by the African American Museum in DC.
