Author: Derek Lasker

For my final revision, I mentally shuffled through a few ideas of which week’s blog post to update. I considered making another podcast and adding to my discussion from Week 5 on the motivation and economic incentive of slavery, but I decided I had said […]

For my research question, I wanted to analyze the distribution of population and slavery in each state in 1790. I chose 1790 because I thought it would be interesting to examine how widespread slavery was in young America, as it was beginning to organize itself […]

For this week’s assignment, I decided to select the theme of religion and pose the research of question of “did people who were enslaved for extremely long periods of time still believe in God?” This question is interesting to me because it calls into question […]

I chose the object titled “Badge”: https://moconfederacy.pastperfectonline.com/webobject/22F23172-C2B9-422D-A347-202847248498 This medal owned by Lt. Col. William H. Stewart commemorates the 20th annual reunion of the United Confederate Veterans on April 26-28, 1910. The medal depicts a torch surrounded by two portraits (the left believed to be Robert […]

Podcast: Why did slavery become so widespread in America?

I decided to review website pair D. The first website is called “Revisiting Rebellion: Nat Turner in the American imagination”(https://americanantiquarian.org/NatTurner/).  This website has one header with a simple graphic and a few tabs along the side of the page so you can pick which part […]

Source 1: http://omekahst251.jenniferandrella.com/items/show/24 The first item I chose was an image of a recruitment poster from the Civil War era.  It showed a regiment comprised of black men and the caption: “Rally round the flag boys! Rally once again, shouting the Battle Cry of FREEDOM!” […]

I found this week’s discussions and the sources we looked at very compelling, and they seemed very indicative of how society viewed the issue of slavery hundreds of years ago, and the mindsets of the people who created those sources. The chapters in Schermerhorn’s book […]

Hello! My name is Derek Lasker, and I am a sophomore from Lancaster, New York. I am a sophomore and I am studying statistics. I enjoy spending time with my friends (which is a lot tougher to do nowadays) and I have a passion for […]