Timbuktu Manuscript Digitization Project
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A recent project rose out of the research of John Hunwick into
a private collection at the Bibliothèque Commémorative Mama Haidara
in Timbuktu, Mali, of 19th century manuscripts relating to slavery
and manumission in Timbuktu. The materials, in Arabic, provide documentation on
Africans in slavery in Muslim societies (a field much neglected in U.S. research).
These are part of a larger collection of manuscripts in Arabic recently featured
in a Chronicle of Higher Education article
(Vol. 49, no. 2 ; Sept. 6, 2002; pages A26-A28) and highlighted by Henry Louis
Gates in his recent PBS documentary on Africa. CAMP digitized these 200 faded
and deteriorating manuscripts, paid for conservation, and sent them back
to Africa.
Sample 1:
Sample 2:
Sample 3:
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