Bibliographic record
Abstract
ConclusionThis project has brought together four diverse autobiographical narratives, from long elaborate narratives to short biographical sketches.Yet, their authors were part of one generation of black leaders in Canada West and the United States, and the narratives are more similar than they first appear.Austin Steward and Samuel Ringgold Ward, for example, both attended the Emancipation Day celebrations in Canandaigua, New York, on August 1, 1847.Steward describes that speaking to the large crowd to begin "the exercises [fell to] the Rev. S. R. Ward, who addressed the throne of grace, after which, Mr. Frederick Douglass delivered an oration, in a style of eloquence which only Mr. Douglass himself can equal" (312).Only one day later, on August 2, Thomas Smallwood and Richard Warren participated in the convention in the AME Chapel at Drummondville, Quebec.There, they sat together on the Business and Finance Committees (Report 6).While each of their narratives deserved a separate case study, this book has sought to unite them by demonstrating how they each create a form of genealogy out of which emerges a cross-border black community via text.If the authors were not entire strangers to each other, their narratives, too, can be brought into conversation.All four writers, for example, within the space of a couple of years, produced long narratives that do not easily fit into one genre category.While they are certainly life narratives, they also include travelogues and accounts of abolitionist work in the forms of letters, minutes, or witness accounts.Part of this work consists in exposing the everyday discrimination of black people in Canada West and the United States in several public sectors.Steward names hotels (or, public service), schools (or, education), and the church as such areas (see 320); Ward includes several episodes illustrating discrimination in public services such as hotels and taverns, public transport including steamboats, and education (see 146-49).As a consequence, both Steward and Ward give free Blacks advice on what considerations should guide their life as freemen, such as financial independence and the importance of education
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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 | 0.003 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.125 | 0.039 |
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".