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The Virginia Gazette Foreign News September 3, 1772
Richmond, Richmond, Virginia
What is this article about?
About two hundred Black men and women held an entertainment in Westminster to celebrate Somerset's victory over his master Mr. Stuart; Lord Mansfield's health was toasted and the evening ended with a ball.
Quality green show the numbers
Measured from the scan
— how cleanly the OCR engine read the characters
- Mean ink quality
- 98.0% The length-weighted average confidence across the OCR lines — the mean of exactly the per-line scores whose tails the two figures below report. Typical is 99%.
- Illegible ink
- 0.0% Text sitting in OCR-detected lines that scored below 80% confidence — very shaky reads. Weighted by line length, so one long bad line counts for more than a short one.
- Uncertain ink
- 0.0% Text in lines that scored 80–90% — somewhat shaky reads.
- Matches source
- 96.82% How closely the served text matches the raw OCR of the same boxes, letter by letter, after collapsing spacing and case. This measures agreement, not correctness: the OCR is often wrong and the extractor corrects it, so 100% does not mean perfect, and a low figure usually means poor scan text was rewritten rather than that text was lost (length vs source shows loss).
- Length vs source
- 98.94% Below 100% means text was dropped from the OCR; above means text was added to make it read.
Assembled by the extraction model
— whether the stitched-together text holds up; catches layout and segmentation errors, which the scores above cannot see
- Transcription confidence
- 96.0% (typical 96%) How cleanly the extractor could assemble what it was given. Low here with clean ink scores points at layout analysis — the characters were read correctly but grouped or ordered wrongly.
- Comprehension
- 93.0% Whether the piece reads coherently start to finish. Can stay high while transcription confidence drops, when only part of the component is affected.
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Full Text
On Monday near two Hundred Blacks, with their Ladies, had an Entertainment at a publick House in Westminster, to celebrate the Triumph which their Brother Somerset had obtained over Mr. Stuart, his Master. Lord Mansfield's Health was echoed round the Room, and the Evening was concluded with a Ball. The Tickets for Admittance to this Black Assembly were five Shillings each.
What sub-type of article is it?
Human Interest
Social Customs
What keywords are associated?
Somerset Case
Black Community Celebration
Westminster
What entities or persons were involved?
Somerset
Mr. Stuart
Lord Mansfield
Where did it happen?
Westminster, London
Foreign News Details
Primary Location
Westminster, London
Event Date
Monday
Key Persons
Somerset
Mr. Stuart
Lord Mansfield