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I’ve decided to compare the data between all nonwhite enslaved people to all nonwhite people who were free due to the curiosity of which states had the largest ratio difference of the two. I decided to roll with a grouped column chart as it displays […]

http://omekahst251.jenniferandrella.com/admin/items/show/id/51  The visual image that I chose was titled Blow by Blow, illustrated by Stephens, H. Louis. The painting was created between the years of 1860 to 1870 by a form of lithography. The practice of lithography is defined as a style of printing that […]

https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/4575546/ For my flourish visualization I wanted to look at the population of slaves in the popular southern states of the US. I did it from 1790-1840. We all know that slavery was very popular in the south and while looking at data it was […]

https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/4575163/ (It would not show up as a visual for some reason.) The research question I formed was: is there a significant change in the number of free and enslaved people from 1790 to 1820? Flourish was great in taking the data I had to […]

I decided for this week’s blog post I would look at data from different states on the amount of free non-white were living there. I choose this topic because I wanted to see if there were large differences in states in the 1790s and how […]

The research question that I developed was: What is the difference between enslaved and non-white freed males in both 1820 and 1850? I choose these years because they had the same census data recorded and the largest time period difference. Initially, I wanted to choose […]

https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/4573865/ (I’ve been trying to copy the HTML of the bar graph to embed here under the text tab, but I’m really confused as to why it isn’t showing up. I can see the icon that says it should be there, but it doesn’t show […]

For my research question, I wanted to analyze the distribution of population and slavery in each state in 1790. I chose 1790 because I thought it would be interesting to examine how widespread slavery was in young America, as it was beginning to organize itself […]

The research question I chose was, “How do slave populations of old and young African Americans compare between men and women in the 1850’s?”.  The data visualization I chose for this research questions data set was, a bar chart.  The chart shows four total columns, […]

After reading the first chapter in Schermerhorn’s book, I have already gained knowledge and information about the history of slavery in the United States that I previously did not know. Throughout high school I had taken multiple history courses that had touched on the subject […]