Monthly Archives: October 2021

I find that computational text analysis has great research value to me, and that it would be of definite use to me as an historian. To begin, computational text analysis can help stimulate inquiry questions. Computational text analysis is “distant … Continue reading →

This is a website review on Revisiting Rebellion: Nat Turner in the American Imagination (American Antiquarian Society) (https://americanantiquarian.org/NatTurner/). This website is all about the man Nat Turner, a enslaved man who led a rebellion that attacked multiple plantations in August … Continue reading →

Item creation and description of my two primary sources did not have many hiccups. My two items were images, so I had almost no text to analyze. One of my sources, “Leap of the Fugitive Slave,” was unclear on what … Continue reading →

As I was reading Unrequited Toil, a particular sentence caught my attention. “In Slave Societies, owners and managers intensified violence to boost productivity, mitigate rebelliousness, and prevent uprisings.” I had always understood slavery to be a particularly ruthless experience, so … Continue reading →