This is a review of Slavery Images, which is a visual record of that time period. http://www.slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/page/welcome .As a whole the website consists of over 1200 images to be viewed. I personally felt like that was kind of low till I realized that these are very specific photos in categorical order. Next to each picture they have detailed descriptions that are essential of course. I appreciate the detail given of the source and such. They have a good break down of source, citation, rights, spatial coverage. The welcome page consists of a super cool feature, A map. Not just any map but a map you can click on to see photos associated with that area.  The website is divided into categories such a “auctions” “and ships”, “marketing and urban scenes” , Physical punishment, “rebellion and running away” etc etc.  When clicked on the link it takes you to a whole page of  photos in these categories. This would be very helpful for people looking into specific topics. I like this design because the layout is very user-friendly, you can easily skim over and find what you need to find. This website audience is generally anyone trying to educate themselves, students teachers and general public. The plus point of the “user friendly” nature makes it so all age groups can use this website comfortably as well. The website has partners that include UNESCO, university of Virginia, and university of Colorado boulder. In all entirety this website is very helpful to people of all audiences, I hope it gets more funding and gets around!

I struggled a lot to figure out how to go about this weeks assignment. I had to go back and re-read all the links to understand the process of this. I am still unsure if the way I went about this was correct or not, I edited the boxs in the omeka but I also have many more images that show up in my exhibit. But once I familiarized myself with the directions my process of finding these two pictures was fairly very easy. As my topic is misogny in enslavement era, I just searched the tag women.  https://s3.amazonaws.com/omeka-net/62445/archive/files/fd1b515a41d14bfea41410118a7cb47e.png?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAI3ATG3OSQLO5HGKA&Expires=1635379200&Signature=igJ6QkiS%2FTba11OIh2mB00Ye%2FtI%3D This was the first thing that came up that was pretty good for my topic. Although it directly does not answer my thesis I can get a lot of good info on how the times were for women as a whole.  The title of this image is “African American women who escaped slavery in 1855”. The description was interesting as well, she dressed in male attire to achieve her desired freedom. My second piece was a letter. https://h251.omeka.net/admin/files/show/7 . It was essentially an agreement on letting a slave go in ten years of time. But by the time 10 years was up the slave, Dinah, would most probably have passed. This is because life expectancy at that time was very low. This truly broke my heart because Dinah probably felt so much hope at the time that agreement was written.  I wonder what actually happened and if Dinah was alive to be freed from her living hell.

We have come to know that there were way more male slaves at the time than female slaves. But based off what we read I want to know the core differences in the treatment between female slaves and male slaves. I want to know roots of systematic sexism that rooted from this time. I hope to research a lot of different topics within this core question. Including comparison of rate of rapes, double standards within one another and sexualization. I went to the DPLA website and searched “female slaves”. I had a lot of photos pop up and some research papers. I opened “Degradation, Humiliation perseverance: A study of female African American slaves  in comparison of female Holocaust victims, 2008, written by Cerise.C.Marshall.   This paper chose to specialize in this topic to add a female perspective  as the face of these tragedies mainly include the male experience. Many anecdotes were used to explain the themes of that time period. One thing that can be easily said is that women had a whole other perspective as slaves and holocaust victims, the types of torcher are opened to a lot of other things due to being sexualized.  Southern laws did not recognize rape of black women as a crime.  This paper seemed very keen on comparing two tragedies with stories rather than the focus on black female slavery.  So next I decided to do a google search, I searched up “female vs male slavery”, I landed an article on PBS.org called The slave experience, by Jennifer Hallam. This article speaks on how women slaves often stayed in bondage so they could stay in more touch with their children. But this often meant having to be in alliance of their master fulfilling their sexual needs on command. I got one of the biggest answers to my thesis. I wanted to find root causes for the sexualization of black women today by knowing how misogny worked for them back then. This text explains how black women were made out to be lustful beings. I am saying this is so they could tone down the idea of rape with “they wanted it or initiated it”.  I do believe in someway exploring the female perspective of slavery will be difficult as female voices at that time weren’t deemed important till recently. But through old documents and photos and articles, I am confident I can dig deep into my thesis.

Hi my name is Pooja, Im a junior in college currently doing my major in psychology! My primary end goal is to become a self employed psychotherapist along with being able to pursue my dance career in india. I chose this line in the trust I have in my emotional intelligence, but my intelligence in other areas can be questionable haha. Nothing stresses me out more than getting a ahold of technology and digital work. Definitely a reason I chose this class. For someone who despised computer lab as a kid, starting a website is a big deal for an old soul like me. Restarting my computer is about the most talented thing I can perform solution wise. This my only in person class and I am a commuter so I hope I can make the best of it. A couple random things about me is , I have travelled to twenty five countries, I hate having lotion on my hands and I used to make tiktoks and had like 143K followers. I want a lot more interaction with my peers in classes, so if anyone wants to start a study group count me in! The small conversations with people are the most energizing thing for me, which is something I really missed in the pandemic. Whether that be sharing a few words with the person near me on the bus or having full on personal conversations with my professors. I want to say Ive learned how to be a lot more introverted and enjoy my own company but I have trained myself in enough of that these past years, time to get back into class time banter and small talk with strangers. Hopefully we get to have in class conversations along with our replies on our website. Lets hope for a great class guys!!!

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