Sample pages from the volume File 5/190 II Manumission of slaves at Muscat: individual cases showing examples of handwritten English and Arabic together with typewritten English and blank pages. Depicted here are 149r-151r (images 306-310). Digitized by the Qatar Digital Library with an Open Government License.

Sample pages from the volume File 5/190 II Manumission of slaves at Muscat: individual cases showing examples of handwritten English and Arabic together with typewritten English and blank pages. Depicted here are 149r-151r (images 306-310). Digitized by the Qatar Digital Library with an Open Government License.

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In this article we analyze a corpus related to manumission and slavery in the Arabian Gulf in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century that we created using Handwritten Text Recognition ( HTR ). The corpus comes from India Office Records ( IOR ) R/15/1/199 File 5 . Spanning the period from the 1890s to the early 1940s and composed of 977K w...

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