Voice of the fugitive, Henry Bibb and "racial uplift" in Canada West, 1851-1852
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Voice of the Fugitive, Canada's first black newspaper, began publication on January 1, 1851. This thesis discusses the topics presented in the Voice of the Fugitive and the paper's editor, Henry Bibb. Black leader Henry Bibb established his bi-weekly newspaper in Canada West to promote causes that he felt would strengthen Canada's black community. Bibb used his paper to promote antislavery and to advance the ideology of 'racial elevation'. Racial elevation, also known as racial uplift, was an attempt to refute discriminatory stereotypes and a quest for respectability for blacks. Bibb believed that adopting values associated with the white middle class would help foster self-respect among black Canadians and demonstrate black respectability to whites. Bibb and the Voice of the Fugitive consistently urged black Canadians to build a better life and uplift their race. Values such as abolition, education, temperance, religion, land-owning, and agriculture were championed in the pages of the Voice of the Fugitive.
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.036 | 0.010 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.011 | 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".