Bibliographic record
Abstract
The remembrance of New England's slave system and critique of its archive often concern scholars at the beginning of the second quarter of the twenty-first century.The archive of slavery has long been understood as more fragmented and incomplete than collections related to other historical phenomena of similar magnitude.New England achieved its nineteenth and twentieth-century reputation as a free region through a cultural amnesia that pushed its slaves and their enslavers out of public memory.One challenge for remembrance and interpretation is that both enslavement and opposition to the slave system were discussed in idioms that we no longer use.A second challenge is that some documentary materials concerning slavery and abolition were recorded and collected, i.e., archived, in ways that concealed their connections to the slave system.An 1811 manuscript sermon on Acts 24:25, "The fatal consequences of Procrastination," (Figure 1) by Ira Hart (1771-1829, Yale 1797, ordained 1798), held at the Library of Congress, exemplifies these challenges. 1 A transcription is presented here, with an introduction, not only to offer an interpretation but also to participate in transcribing and publishing such works for the sake of recovering a history that has been obscured.The sermon was delivered in 1811, in Stonington, Connecticut, yet the manuscript suggests that Hart had been refining his thoughts on Acts 24:25 since at least 1799. 2 Departing from other ministers' practice, which involved writing the first date on which a sermon was preached at the top of the first page, then cramming others around that date or in the margins, Hart seems, for this manuscript, to have worked backward.He dated the sermon 1811, then listed earlier dates of delivery, evidently culled from other sermon notes.His method of recording dates suggests that he considered this to be an important
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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 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.011 | 0.013 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.012 | 0.002 |
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".