Crossing Iowa for Freedom: The Underground Railroad, Free State Settlers, and John Brown
Bibliographic record
Abstract
onas Jones was busy making bricks on a Sep tember day in 1854 when he stopped to write a friend: "You have doubtless been informed by Br.Todd of the escape of five 'human chattels' from their master on the 4th of July.We expect they are safe now."Jones was referring to the first incident in which the residents of Tabor, Iowa, assisted fugitive slaves.In early July, a Mormon family traveling from Mississip pi to Salt Lake City had stopped to camp overnight at Tabor, in extreme southwestern Iowa.Jesse West's ho tel was under construction, and two of the Mormons' slaves talked with the builders as they retrieved water from West's well.The carpenters learned that five of the six slaves desired their freedom.Within a few davs J and with the help of Tabor residents, the runaways had crossed the Nishnabotna River and reached the home of Congregationalist minister and abolitionist George B. Hitchcock in Lewis, from where they quickly moved across Iowa to Illinois, entering Canada at Detroit.In the years ahead, Jonas Jones would welcome the staunch abolitionist John Brown into his home.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.029 | 0.010 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.014 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".