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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
The Map
The blue points represent the places where the rumored rebellion was reported and the line extending from that point is the location of the newspaper reporting it. In one case, there is an article that covers two rumors in nearby locations. The two points represent the two locations and the line extending from them represent the source they are from. You can hover over the point and click on it to read the transcript from the article. All of the rumors presented here were located in the South and reported from the Northeast. In seeing this visualization, I would like the reader to be curious about how the information traveled from word to mouth to press, across the country and the world.