Have you ever wanted to be a transcriber?

Look no further--the Boston Public Library is asking for help in cataloging and digitizing their collection of handwritten correspondence between anti-slavery activists in the 19th century. They need people who are interested in helping by reading and reviewing the handwritten letters in order to digitally transcribe the writings, so that they can be more easily read by others in the future.

This is a online opportunity available at the following website: www.antislaverymanuscripts.org. Please note that this is a voluntary program. To participate, sign up for a free account, follow the tutorial, and then you'll be randomly assigned a document to transcribe!  

 "Through the participation of citizen historians, we now stand on the threshold of having available — free to all — the entire contents of the Boston Public Library's extraordinary Anti-Slavery Manuscripts collection: the personal papers of women and men who joined together, across barriers of race and class, in the Abolitionist crusade."
 --Peter Drummey, Stephen T. Riley Librarian, Massachusetts Historical Society
 (from The Boston Library's Anti-Slavery Manuscripts website)

Note: This is particularly hard if you are not a fan of cursive. Some of the writings are pretty easy to transcribe, others, not so much. If you are interested in participating, do your best, and let me know what your think in the comments below! :)

P.S. 
I am still in the middle of reading books for reviews. Keep a lookout for new reviews in the upcoming month!