We looked at the text of these articles from the Accessible Archives website and then inputted into the StoryMap program. We observed a visual representation of the terms used to describe these rebellions in the Voyant word cloud. These tools proved effective in our understanding of the way in which language is used. According to the article Using Voyant-Tools to Formulate Research Questions for Textual Data by Filipa Calado, "The application then allows users to play with the resulting visualizations, to further explore the text from different angles, such as term frequencies, contexts, and relations."
What one can learn from these articles is that planters and others that lived in Louisiana feared and shared rumors that the enslaved people would rise up and revolt. They sought to swiftly end these uprisings. The language of the time was carefully crafted so as to not highlight and glorify these efforts. In fact, the ultimate price paid was execution by hanging. The word cloud illuminated this fact further as this is one of the most frequently referenced outcomes. Without tools like Voyant and the research from the Accessible Archive database these connections could have easily been overlooked or dismissed.