Foreign Summary Word Cloud

For this word cloud, I conglomerated the body text from all 11 “Foreign Summary” features provided on the map. After removing proper nouns and place-specific descriptors, we are left, pretty clearly, with the language of sovereignty. As I mentioned in reference to the map, it’s important to remember that these features are authored by people who occupied a range of positions with respect to rebellion, ‘empire,’ and colonialism. It is, therefore, quite interesting that the common denominator of language across these parties seems to be concerned with matters of the State more than issues of race, power, means, life, death etc.

Perhaps this is a way to consider the The National Era as a “gradualist” newspaper? As speaking the language of imperialism so as not to appear to brash or revolutionary?

Or, rather, that matters of power, race, and rebellion were more widely thinkable for the newspaper’s readers through a context of sovereignty?

Is it suggestive that international affairs too literally means "affairs between nations" more than it does “other contexts of intranational struggle”?