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            <title type="main">Gideon Buckingham, letter, to Eleazar Wheelock, 17 February 1772</title>
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                <persName>Jeremy Mikecz</persName>
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                <resp>Wrote Python program to (semi-)automate adding of <gi>choice</gi> tags to Wheelock Enslavement Documents corpus.</resp> 
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                <title type="main">Enslavement Documents from the Wheelock Collection</title>
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            <idno type="ms-number">MS 1310: Eleazar Wheelock collection, Box 24, Folder 772167</idno>
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                Nando and Hagar</note>
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                its manifestations varied from region to region. This project attempts to cast
                light on Wheelock’s -- and Dartmouth’s -- roles in the institution of slavery,
                as well as bringing to light the lives of enslaved people represented in the
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