F20 Black Atlantic: Resources, Pedagogy, and Scholarship on the 18th Century Black AtlanticMain MenuAuthor IndexFAQWeek 01: August 28: PedagogiesWeek 02: Friday, September 4: Thinking about Projects and Digital MethodsWeek 03: Friday, September 11: Black Atlantic Classics Week 04: Reccomended: Thursday September 17: 4pm: Indigenous Studies and British LiteraturesThe Center for Literary + Comparative Studies @UMDWeek 04: Required: Friday, September 18: Reading: Indigenous Studies in the Eighteenth CenturyWeek 04: Required: Friday, September 18: Book LaunchRemaking the Republic: Black Politics and the Creation of American CitizenshipWeek 05: Friday, September 25: Digital Humanities, Caribbean Stuides, and FashionGuest: Siobhan MeiWeek 06: Friday, October 2: OBIWeek 07: October 9: Black LondonSancho's Social NetworksWeek 08: Friday, October 16:Muslim Slave Narratives, Hans Sloane, the British Museum, Colonialism as CurationWeek 09: Friday, October 23: Reflection and Tools DayWeek 10: Friday, October 30: Myths of a White Atlantic (and Project Proposal)Week 11: Friday, November 6: Black New EnglandWeek 12: Friday, November 13: Woman of Colour and Mary PrinceWeek 13: Friday, November 20: Peer Review Workshop and Draft with Action PlanKierra M. Porter6b7d2e75a0006cdf2df0ac2471be73ef9c88c9e3Brandice Walker579eedcc76564f61b1ba7f36082d05bdf4fc3435Alexis Harper52f175308474d58b269191120b6cda0582dcde71Catherine C. Saunders80964fcb3df3a95f164eca6637e796a22deb5f63Joseph Heidenescher83b7b4309ef73ce872fc35c61eb8ed716cce705fJoshua Lawson8aecdcf9d2db74d75fb55413d44f3c2dfc3828bdKymberli M Corprue7f6419242e66e656367985fbc1cfa10a933ce71dJimisha Relerford1903b0530d962a83c3a72bad80c867df4f5c027fEmily MN Kugler98290aa17be4166538e04751b7eb57a9fe5c26a2Reed Caswell Aikendbd321f67398d85b0079cc751762466dfe764f88Brenton Brock619582e4449ba6f0c631f2ebb7d7313c0890fa00
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1media/Web-Services-Banner.jpgmedia/Battle_of_Vertières_in_1803_Haitian_Revolution.jpg2020-09-01T22:18:44-07:00Pondering an Interactive Visualization for C.L.R. James's The Black Jacobins6Week 3 Responseimage_header2020-10-01T01:05:08-07:00C.L.R. James’s The Black Jacobins explores the Haitian Revolution in the forefront of the French Revolution and in this way, we are able to see the parallels between the two uprisings and the participants’ responses on both sides to violation of rights, government corruption, etc. We are also able to see the influence of French writings on the key characters in the Haitian revolution such as Toussaint L’Ouverture drawing inspiration from Guillaume Thomas François Raynal’s Philosophical and Political History of the Establishments and Commerce of the Europeans in the Two Indies. James bounces between key dates in both revolutions. While this back and forth is a stylistic highlight that adds interest to a subject about which we might already know, I believe the connections between the two revolutions could be further explored through a simplified chronological timeline. The information in the book could benefit from the creation of an interactive visualization which allows the viewer to travel through the sequence of events (shown through the specific dates and events that James chooses to include) of the revolution at San Domingo. Each entry on the timeline would include an excerpt from the book as well as additional historical information, if needed. This suggestion is not to criticize the original organization of the text. The headings under which James organizes his work serve a purpose and push this book past just a regurgitation of facts into the territory of a truly artistic piece. That being said, organizing James’s references by date might yield even more lucrative connections between events of the Haitian Revolution and between the Haitian Revolution and the French Revolution. If I am on the right track, this could be a possible project for the final. Using a program such as TimeMapper, I could reorganize James’s text into an interactive timeline. In my brief research on the subject, I found timelines on the Haitian Revolution and I even found timelines that draw connections between the Haitian and French Revolutions, but I could not find one which extensively incorporates James’s text. This is an element which I feel could make my timeline not only a great resource for education on the Haitian Revolution, but also a great pairing for the original James text.