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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
Journalism Through Different Lenses
After the events of Harpers Ferry, the news media covered the insurrection in a variety of ways. White media initially said it was a rebellion led by the enslaved with horrifically inflated numbers of participants. The black media not only tried to mitigate the fallout of the insurrection, but also used their papers as a way to try and keep blacks calm and to continue on a path of peaceful emancipation. The following pages present clips from both black owned and white owned newspapers and of their accounts, opinions, and facts of the Harpers Ferry Raid.