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 looked through the listed categories for Guide to Religious Content in Monday’s database containing slave narratives and it helped me formulate my research question: How may religion have been a motivating factor for resistance?  I’m not very well acquainted with using text analysis tools […]

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 […]

For this week’s blog post, I chose the North American Slave Database for my research question: Did enslaved people have to ask their enslaver before performing this religious sacrament (baptism)?  I thought this question was particularly interesting, especially as a Christian. Baptism is a huge […]

Link 1 Link 2 I really enjoyed completing this assignment, it was like the flourish map assignment because we got to do some technical activity within our research. For my research question I chose to explore was what a funeral for a religious slave included? […]

For this week’s technical activity of text analysis, I chose to analyze positive religious experiences from the North American Slave Database. I am very interested in learning about the devotion of enslaved people to God and further learning how their connection to God helps them […]

I have chosen the “Funerals” theme from “Documenting the American South”. My reason for selecting Funerals was to know whether the Slaves reserved the right to bury (or other rituals) their dead just like the slaveholders. I have selected 4 (4 out of 5) text […]

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 […]

    The official page from Cherokee Phoenix and Indians’ Advocate. For my research question, I wanted to know Cherokee Phoenix’s thoughts on abolition of slavery.   So I first did advanced search of the words, ‘slavery’, ‘slave’, ‘abolition’ and ‘property’.  The first paper had many […]

My Research Question: What was it like to learn how to read and write as a slave?   To answer this question I focused on the Literacy section of the North American Slave Database. In this section, I chose to look into the  Life and […]