I guess the message is user beware.

Sometimes it converts dates to random famous dates that must appear in training data, but are nowhere in the uploaded file

It also did a settler colonialism on this entry from an index from the 1870s, turning "squatters" into "settlers" while grabbing other text verbatim

Just found another one, maybe: $15K for Newberry College in 1898 for damage during the Civil War. I don't actually know anything about Newberry's association with slavery, but it's South Carolina, so perhaps worth a look...

Washington & Lee has done a good job of documenting its history with slavery. Here and elsewhere, though, the wrong-way reparations part of the story seems to have gotten lost. The timeline below literally skips right over it
www.wlu.edu/working-grou...

I remember folks just going without and hoping for the best - a recipe for disaster

Today, the descendants of the people enslaved by these Massachusetts families are in tremendous need. This is the exact area hit hardest by Hurricane Melissa. Part of the reason the people are so vulnerable is that their ancestors were enslaved, exploited, and impoverished to make Cambridge rich.

Robinson’s original idea would have vandalized the Black Hills even more. He wanted to carve the Pinnacles into statues of (in)famous pioneers, turning them into a Garden of Heroes, if you will

The Supreme Court admitted that the Black Hills were stolen, but wouldn’t given them back to the Lakotas. Only offered a lowball payout of ca $100 million. Sound like a lot, but consider that just one big mine, the Homestake Mine, scraped $70 BILLION in gold out of hills over 125 years of operation

Highly recommend the digitized Doane Robinson Papers, which cover efforts to create the monument as a tourist trap for an emerging car culture 🗃️
brookingsregister.com/stories/sout...