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Visual: http://omekahst251.jenniferandrella.com/items/show/21 The visual piece that I chose from the links in the sources and data set page on the course website was a picture by Richbourg Galliard. This photo depicted a reenactment of a model that had a Bell rack attached to him. The bell […]

http://omekahst251.jenniferandrella.com/admin/items/show/23 http://omekahst251.jenniferandrella.com/admin/items/show/26 For my visual resource, I added a picture of a celebration parade that occurred when the 15th Amendment was passed. I found this source on the Smithsonian website and found it particularly interesting in relation to our class and current election. I was […]

http://omekahst251.jenniferandrella.com/items/show/7 The first item I chose to create in Omeka was this watercolor painting of a Capoeira scene. The creator of this painting was Augustus Earle. This specific image intrigued me because initially, it looked like it was a scene of two men that were […]

Image: http://omekahst251.jenniferandrella.com/admin/items/show/10 Text: http://omekahst251.jenniferandrella.com/admin/items/show/9   Some topics I started searching for first were, “African Methodist Episcopal” (AME) church, but I couldn’t really find anything around the 1818 time period, like what was discussed in Chapter 4 in Schermerhorn.  In addition, I tried searching “1820 Richmond […]

  When it comes to the subject of slavery, I have always liked to learn about slaves interacted beyond working. For instance, learning about how slaves created songs and dances has always interested me because they still managed to retain some amount of hope and […]

Item one (visual) : http://omekahst251.jenniferandrella.com/items/show/13 The first source that I chose to use for this week’s blog is a sketch done by J. Wells Chamney in the year 1873. The sketch’s setting is Louisiana, and the sketch itself depicts young African American field workers performing […]

http://omekahst251.jenniferandrella.com/items/show/12 The first document I chose was created and written by Frederick Douglass. This document states what is wrong about the slavery happening in America. Frederick Douglass was a well known man and an impactful abolitionist, he wrote this speech for the anti-slavery followers. Him […]

http://omekahst251.jenniferandrella.com/admin/items/show/12 The text document I chose to turn into an Omeka item pertains to anti-slavery in the United States.  This speech by Frederick Douglas, a well-known anti-slavery figure in throughout the 1800’s.  This document entails the problems that Frederick Douglass saw with Slavery in America.  […]

Source 1: American Colonization Society Certificate to James Madison http://omekahst251.jenniferandrella.com/items/show/2  Source 2: James Madison to Robert I. Evans, June 15, 1819. http://omekahst251.jenniferandrella.com/items/show/5 The first source I found was a certificate that the American Colonization Society granted to James Madison to certify that he was a […]

Item One –  http://omekahst251.jenniferandrella.com/items/show/3: The first item that I decided to do was a letter from Mosby Sheppard to James Monroe warning him of Gabriel’s Conspiracy. This letter was written after two enslaved men, that were owned by Moore, told him of the plans to […]