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Online Link: https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2011.104.31?destination=edan-search/collection_search%3Fedan_q%3D%252A%253A%252A%26edan_fq%255B0%255D%3Dtopic%253A%2522Slavery%2522%26edan_fq%255B1%255D%3Dplace%253A%2522North%2520and%2520Central%2520America%2522%26edan_local%3D1 Museum Label: This document is a receipt for the purchase of a slave in Essex County, Virginia. This transaction occurred in 1826 and the slave was purchased by the head of the Rouzze family plantation, Edward Rouzee, in regard to the death of […]

Link to the object: https://collections.si.edu/search/detail/edanmdm:nmah_596365?hlterm=slavery Museum Label (74 words) : Medallion created by Josiah Wedgwood & Sons, made in England, 1787, with refined stoneware surrounded by ceramic paste attached to a metal chain.  The design of an enslaved man kneeling, hands in chains, “AM I […]

Object Link: https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2011.4.2ab   Object Label: Ambrotytpe of Qualls Tibbs holding a musket across his body sitting in a wooden chair. Qualls Tibbas was a 5th Sargent in the 27th US Colored Troops. In a larger scare, Qualls represents the courageous colored troops who fought […]

Link to my map  The Great Migration took place right after the Civil War, this was the first real transhumance of African Americans from out of the South to communities in the North and West. I believe my geographical map about the historical movement of […]

Evening Dress (c. 1857-1935) This beautiful hand-quilted silk/satin/fur coat was made by Louvenia Price, a woman who was born enslaved in Massachusetts. She worked as a dressmaker even after she was emancipated, and made this coat for her own use. It has a pocket, which […]

I was trying to give a visual to slavery instead of stories and other resources. I also think that through flourish and the census data we were all able to create very interesting pieces of history. I decided to create a map depicting slavery related […]

  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 […]

https://uploads.knightlab.com/storymapjs/770fe74da65072d12b691c30fc16b4e5/the-spread-of-the-cotton-empire/index.html For this week’s blog post, I decided to create a storymap that covers the spread of the cotton empire in the United States. I wanted to focus on the cotton empire because I understand how important it was to the expansion of industrialism around […]

My map: The Dred Scott case  The process of creating this map was hard at first, but became progressively easier. Getting the map to not zoom in so much was first an issue, I didn’t want it to seem like Johnson was born in a […]

Data Map: https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/4282329/ I greatly enjoyed this project because I have never made a data map before and I found the information that I uncovered to be very interesting. For my data map I wanted to explore the population of families holding enslaved African Americans […]