The Quill Project Conventions Podcast
Douglass Day and the Colored Conventions Project: Nineteenth-Century Black Activism with Denise Burgher and Jim Casey
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Grace Mallon talks to Denise Burgher and Jim Casey about the Colored Conventions Project, a digital project reconstructing the history of the Colored Conventions movement of the nineteenth century, and about Douglass Day, their annual community history event in honour of the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass on Valentine's Day
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The Quill Project exists to enhance understanding of some of the foundational legal texts of the modern world. By combining traditional historical and archival research with advanced digital modelling techniques, the project explores the context within which constitutional conventions, legislative assemblies, and other formal groups made decisions.