Author: Yaoyu Xia

In Blog 7, I choose to use two Pictures about slavery. Title: Life is a circle Description: This paper record a Brazilian slave ship, they started shipping from Brazil and got Africa, met Spanish and Portuguese. Finally, they took seven back to South America. Slavery […]

In this Final post, I decide to have a revision of Project 6. In this project, I made a map about some important wars in the Civil war. They are Battle of Bull Run, Battle of Shilon, Battle of Antietam, Battle of Wilderness and Battle […]

Blog 8 In the Blog, I choose to use an newspaper in Memphis daily appeals. August 07,1860 At the very beginning of the newspaper, there is a large national democratic ticket title. That is the ticket for president and vice president. I think their opponent […]

I choose to make a simple column chart about cereal crops production from 1860-1870. This is the period of civil war. The civil war began since 1861 and finished at 1865.  This war is not only the business of men but also crops and livestock. […]

  I introduced fives battles in civil war. I think some of them were playing important role in the civil war. I did not talk about slavery or politic, I just have some slides about battles. One reason is because I like to talk about […]

Other side of civil war and slavery. I do not mean I support slavery but I want to say everything have both sides. Before the war, the 2/3 world cotton came from south After the war, nothing but freedom left Rarely aid from north for […]

Before talk about the website, I want to say something about what should a good website be in my mind. Just like the advertising boarding, people will not spend a lot of time read them on the motorway because they are driving. Sometimes few words or […]

My first resource is http://omekahst251.jenniferandrella.com/admin/items/show/43 and my second source is http://omekahst251.jenniferandrella.com/admin/items/show/45. The first resource talk about the situation of people at 1859 sold and brought slaves as an item and the second is the History Behind a Slave’s Bill of Sale This would be a […]

This week is the second week of leaning American history and slavery. For the reason I come from China and I only study a little about American History in high school and it could be the first time for me to learn about slavery. I […]

My name is Yaoyu Xia, A sophomore in MSU. My major is math but I have already fall calculus twice and I am deciding to change my major. I come from Eastern part of China, a city near Shanghai called Suzhou. During my free time, […]