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Highlights from "Global Slaveries, Fugitivity, and the Afterlives of Unfreedom."
Curators Pedro Machado and Olimpia Rosenthal discuss six notable items from the current Lilly Library exhibition, "Global Slaveries, Fugitivity, and the Afterlives of Unfreedom."
Processing Capra Press
Hal Parkinson writes about insights into renowned authors gleaned while processing the papers of the Capra Press publishing house.
Journey to the Center of the Mertz, part 3
Lilly Library Manuscripts Archivist Ava Dickerson wraps up this blog series about the cataloging of the Barbara Mertz collection.
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