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From the first class, I’ve gained more interest in learning more about history. The research question that I have is why was the impact and effect of slavery sugarcoated in the educational system? When I learned about slavery in middle school and college, there wasn’t […]

My name is Jasmine. I am a journalism major and a full-time personal trainer. My business is “JASFROMTHEGYM” where I specialize in transforming lives. My business started with me just wanting to become healthier and smaller and led to me being a coach of over […]

The Schermerhorn book talks about the history of slavery. He starts off explaining how slavery was essential at the time and it spread into all aspects of life. It was very interesting how there was a sense of liberty at the time but not liberty […]

  For the Voyant blog post I decided to focus on religion during the slave trade. I find it interesting to discuss how religion displayed itself as a large part of culture during this time. To exam how slaver traders and slaves both share faith […]

Hello everybody, my name is Alex Andoni and I am a freshman here at MSU. Due to Covid-19 and a very overwhelming class schedule I have severely fallen behind in this class. However, I am going to try my best to catch up to the […]

I chose to write about the Cherokee Phoenix Newspaper source. My questions pertaining to the source is; where were white sympathizers typically located in the United States at the time this newspaper used them as one of their target audiences? After copying my URL into […]

For this Voyant blog post I found the North American Slave Database to be quite interesting. As I was navigating through the database, I was trying to locate topics that discussed the African woman experience as a slave in the South. In my opinion I […]

For this Voyant blog assignment I chose to pick a source from the North American Slave Database. I was particularly interested in the topic of marriage in relation to slavery. The research question I developed from this is: “What types of restrictions are held between […]

This week’s blog post was focused on text analysis, so I decided to choose the North American Slave Database to pose a research question. What was the purpose of the so-called “conjure” that some enslaved people practiced? was it for religious purposes or a strategy […]

  This week’s blog post and the technical activities were both activities that I thought helped me learn a lot. In these, I got to learn about slave culture and choose how I want the direction of my discussion post. After looking at some material […]