I decided to revisit the week seven topic of digital art history and museum labels. I found that this assignment had many different choices of artifact to choose from and write a label about. I decided to find a new medium and create a label […]
Author: Nick Fee
Flourish blog post
The research question I chose was, “How do slave populations of old and young African Americans compare between men and women in the 1850’s?”. The data visualization I chose for this research questions data set was, a bar chart. The chart shows four total columns, […]
Voyant Blog Post
The research question I chose was, “Explain the Slaveholder controlled, religious experience and its effects on slaves in the 1800’s”. I choose the “North American Slave Narratives” database to find potential documents that would aid in answering this question. The first document that I decided […]
Label Blog Post
Label: The Slave tag was a method of organizing and identifying slaves who were then rented by other entities outside of their owner. The tag is made of copper and stamped with a slave identification number. The tag comes from Charleston, South Carolina which was […]
Blog post map
https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/4254397/ I choose to create a data map which depicted slavery among teenagers in the 1850’s. Creating this map provided me with a very interesting visualization of the age demographics of those that were forced into slavery at the time. Through this map I am […]
Blog Post 4
The two websites that I decided to compare were, The Geography of slavery in Virginia website and the Freedom On the Move website. The very first thing I noticed when viewing these sites was the massive difference in aesthetics of the website. The aesthetics of […]
Blog Post 3
http://omekahst251.jenniferandrella.com/admin/items/show/12 The text document I chose to turn into an Omeka item pertains to anti-slavery in the United States. This speech by Frederick Douglas, a well-known anti-slavery figure in throughout the 1800’s. This document entails the problems that Frederick Douglass saw with Slavery in America. […]
Blog Post 2
The research question I would choose would be, “Explain the relationship Thomas Jefferson had to slaves”. First, I would visit the Library of Congress website to look for specific documents that pertain to Thomas Jefferson and Slavery. I would then try to locate which articles […]
Introduction-Nick Fee
My name is Nick, I am from Columbus, Ohio and am currently a junior at MSU. In my free time I enjoy making music/listening to music. After looking through the course schedule I am most excited about the Podcasting week, as I am a very […]