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Record W4231882022 · doi:10.4000/books.pulm.14253

Reenacting History: the Underground Railroad Live!

2007· book-chapter· en· W4231882022 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Isabel Alonso Breto

Bibliographic record

VenuePresses universitaires de la Méditerranée eBooks · 2007
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCanadian Identity and History
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTrial by ordealUnderground RailroadTRIPS architectureLawRest (music)HistoryEngineeringGenealogyPolitical scienceTransport engineeringMedicine

Abstract

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During the first half of the 19th century, hundreds of slaves saw themselves transported to freedom through the Underground Railroad which covered most of the United States and Canada. This was a secret organised network of communications and routes whose aim was to rescue from slavery as many people as possible, helping them to reach safely territories where slavery had been abolished. In many cases, Canada was the final step of the journey. One of the protagonists of the Underground Railroad was Harriet Tubman, a runaway slave that, once a free woman in Canada, spent the rest of her life helping fellowmen and women to escape the ordeal of slavery, doing several trips back to the south in search of new ‘cargo’ to be transported north to freedom. More than a century later, in 1988 Toronto, a black and witty fourteen-year-old will find her heroine and social model in the figure of Harriet Tubman. Margaret Cruishank is the main character in Marlene Nourbese Philip’s novel for teenagers Harriet’s Daughter (1988). In her coming-of-age process, she sees the need to disavow her real name to become Harriet, a name which, she reckons, carries with it a signification that her own name lacks. A girl of unusual courage and determination, Margaret-Harriet will seduce her schoolmates with a new and fascinating game: the Canadian Underground Railroad. Thus they will set out to reenact history, twisting it on the way and unlearning some of its particulars: ’ “Can slaves be white?” “Of course they can!"’ we read, for instance, at one point in the novel. The children’s game will eventually be discovered, and its organiser severely reprimanded. But through this and other adventures, Margaret-Harriet will herself become a sort of Harriet Tubman, since with her account she traces new routes for her fellow teenagers to reach a safe Afrocaribbean-Canadian identity, making them feel proud of their origins, their culture and their skin colour.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesScience and technology studies
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.718
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0020.003
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.032
GPT teacher head0.237
Teacher spread0.206 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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".

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