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Student Exhibits
- Rebellions Abroad! — by Travis Heeren
- A Glossary of Black Women in Rebellion — by Kaylor MacLaughlin
- Rumored — by Serena Morgan
- Fragmented Individual Acts of Rebellion — by Twila Neiwert
- John Brown, Harpers Ferry, and the Media — by Bessie Rudd
- Louisiana: Rumors and Insurrections — by Stephanie Smith
- Revolutionaries & Art in Black Cuban Uprisings — by Jiesha Stephens
- Mapping Rumored Rebellions in the South — by Jalen Thompson
- Black Asylum and Sovereignty — by Adam Vernon
- Days in a Demi-Decade: Miscellaneous Rebellions in 19th Century African American Newspapers (1856-1860) — by Hannah Zeller
- Summarily Punished
Lucy
1: the name of a woman who escaped her enslavement. When captured, she hung herself in her jail cell. In the position she was hanging, she had to elevate her own legs in order for them not to touch the ground; 2: the only executed enslaved woman in Nat Turner’s Rebellion.
Archived news clipping of Lucy (1) from What has the North to do with Slavery? from The Colored American (February 17, 1838) via Accessible Archives.
Archived news clipping of Lucy (2) from Nat Turner's Insurrection in the Douglass Monthly (September 1861) via Accessible Archives.