Author: Landon Gustafson

For this final revision, I decided to revisit and rework the recent Data visualization project using Flourish. The reason that I chose to revise this piece is that I ran into some technical difficulties and due to my procrastination I honestly rushed through it. I […]

The research question that I developed was: What is the difference between enslaved and non-white freed males in both 1820 and 1850? I choose these years because they had the same census data recorded and the largest time period difference. Initially, I wanted to choose […]

This week’s blog post was focused on text analysis, so I decided to choose the North American Slave Database to pose a research question. What was the purpose of the so-called “conjure” that some enslaved people practiced? was it for religious purposes or a strategy […]

Charleston Slave Badge from 1850 for mechanic No.23 https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2008.4?destination=edan-search/collection_search%3Fpage%3D4%26edan_q%3D%252A%253A%252A%26edan_local%3D1%26edan_fq%255B0%255D%3Dtopic%253A%2522Slavery%2522 Object label: Slave Badges were mandated in 1751, and badge laws soon swept across different cities, especially Charleston, where they were manufactured and sold. These small badges were made of copper, and slaves working in cities […]

This week, titled “Geospatial Analysis and Mapping,”  I choose to construct a data map using census data and Flourish. We learned how to create both data and narrative maps in the lecture; although the narrative map seemed interesting, I felt like the Data map did […]

This is my podcast, where my main focus is the Cotton Empire and how it affected the economy then and how it has left a footprint in today’s economics.

I choose the two websites labeled under the C section of the class page; Frederick Douglass National Historic site. Frederick Douglass was born into slavery and after escape became a prominent activist and a leader of the abolitionist movement. The first website which I examined […]

Visual: http://omekahst251.jenniferandrella.com/items/show/21 The visual piece that I chose from the links in the sources and data set page on the course website was a picture by Richbourg Galliard. This photo depicted a reenactment of a model that had a Bell rack attached to him. The bell […]

Over the first two weeks of class, we have read the first two chapters of Schermerhorn’s book as well as discussed two primary sources. Honestly, I have learned more in the past two weeks than I ever had before, in high school my history teacher […]

Hello everyone, my name is Landon Gustafson and this is my junior year here at MSU. My major is human biology, in the future, I plan to attend dental school anywhere in the US depending on where I get accepted. Some of my hobbies include […]