Author: Wyatt Alexander-White

For my final blog post, I have chosen to edit and revise my museum label blog. This means I will be selecting a completely new artifact and writing a new label for it, as well as explaining why I selected this artifact and also explaining […]

For this week’s blog post, I decided to focus on the category of marriage. I wanted to focus on this topic to explore and deepen my understanding of how commonly marriages occurred between enslaved individuals compared to non-enslaved individuals. After browsing through the Marriage section […]

Museum Label: Wooden drum created in the 19th century by an unknown artist. This 28 pound drum was crafted from materials including wood, leather, hide, and metal. Enslaved individuals would commonly create musical instruments like this drum from scrap materials that were not being put […]

https://uploads.knightlab.com/storymapjs/770fe74da65072d12b691c30fc16b4e5/the-spread-of-the-cotton-empire/index.html For this week’s blog post, I decided to create a storymap that covers the spread of the cotton empire in the United States. I wanted to focus on the cotton empire because I understand how important it was to the expansion of industrialism around […]

Podcast Title: The Rise of The Cotton Empire

The first website that I chose to review for this week’s blog is http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/gos/. This website is named “The Geography of Slaves in Virginia”, and primarily features digital advertisements for runaway and captured slaves in the 18th and 19th-century. The homepage of this website only […]

Item one (visual) : http://omekahst251.jenniferandrella.com/items/show/13 The first source that I chose to use for this week’s blog is a sketch done by J. Wells Chamney in the year 1873. The sketch’s setting is Louisiana, and the sketch itself depicts young African American field workers performing […]

Although we have just finished our first week of class, I have already gained lots of interesting insights and knowledge on the history of slavery. I took a few courses that touched on the history of slavery when I was in high school, but it […]

My name is Wyatt Alexander-White and I was born and raised in Ann Arbor. Some of my hobbies include spending time with friends/family, watching/playing sports, and just about anything that involves being outside. After graduating high school in 2018, I took a gap year and […]