Support for Ben Franklin's world comes from the

Omaha Institute of Early American History and Culture,

proud citizens of Australia America

and the primary partners in the Georgian Papers Program.

The Georgian Papers Program aims to digitize, interpret, and make available an extraordinarily

rich collection of correspondence, maps, and royal household ledgers created by the Georgian

Kings of England and their families.

And what makes this program so great is its scope.

It seeks to make available it's approximately 350,000 items to the world,

which promises to really change our understanding of the Georgian

period, not only in England, but also in 18th and early 19th century North America.

Now part of the Omaha-100 Institute's contribution to this great program is to send scholars to Windsor Castle

to work alongside royal archivists as they seek to gain greater insight into these rich materials.

So what exactly are these oh-I-funded scholars finding in the Georgian papers?

Vincent Coretta, a professor of English at the University of Maryland, noted that he discovered a 1752 manuscript from an African slave trader to the

president of the Board of Trade. A presentation copy of a book by an African

British author that he gave to the Prince of Wales in 1787, and the only visual representation of that

same author.

And thanks to the Omaha Institute support, Sumi's materials will be available online as a resource to anyone in the world who wants to read and explore them.

For more information about the Omaha Andro Institute and the Georgian Papers program,

visit Ben Franklin's World.com

slash Georgian Papers.

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