For my week eleven final reflection, I decided I wanted to go back and play around more with my narrative map on KnightLab. I chose to go back to this project because it was one of my favorites from this semester. It was a simple […]

During the time we had throughout this class week 5 (podcast week) was my favorite yet still my least favorite. I really enjoy the external applications we were able to use (audacity) and how we were able to play around with the audio and edit […]

Throughout this semester, HST 251 has taught me many things about the history of slavery. Through the activities and blog posts have done, it has become much easier to comprehend the crucial material we have learned during this class. One activity that sticks out to […]

                        https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/4603005/            Research question: What was the proportion of enslaved non-white people to free non-white people in 1790? What different variable could be responsible for the number? I used […]

The one week that I want to reflect on, is the podcasting week (week 5). To be honest, I was very scared about this week. First off, I hate the way that my voice sounds when I talk and have to hear it back. Secondly, […]

For the week 8 assignment I decided to choose a newspaper from the Cherokee Phoenix, and Indians Advocate source. I found an interesting article that discussed the abolishment of slavery in certain northern states. I was very fascinated when I learned that many states passed […]

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. […]

For this blog post I thoroughly enjoyed using Flourish which has become my favorite data visualization tool to create interactive graphics. With this software I used the dataset from 1790 – 1850 that you provided in the attached PDF. After analyzing the multiple excel charts I […]

Museum Label: This sheet of paper is a large, pre-printed bill of sale with handwritten text on both sides. It describes the mortgage of four enslaved people by former owner George Lynes. The names of the enslaved people are S Bella, L Sally, Ben, and […]

My favorite tool to use this semester was definitely Flourish. I’m glad that we got to use it twice because it was interesting to see all the data laid out in a chart/map. Using Flourish made it a lot easier to visualize the data I […]