Category: General
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library Research Grant
Today I just found out I won a research grant given out by my school’s library! This grant allows you to do research at other libraries or archives. I am going to use this grant to travel down to the Mississippi State Archives in Jackson. I was made aware by another blogger that Hilda Flowers’,…
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Update on research
Never imagined that my research would result in this, but I realized no researcher does. Classes have just started, yet this semester is almost done. The reason behind my absent, actual I been just reading other people’s blogs. This semester was my first semester as a history major after biology, sociology and anthropology, and politics…my…
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Was Harry Flowers a Slave?
Harry Flowers, the father of Rachel, was born in 1846 in Putnam County, Florida. According to Census documents (link below), there were a total of 2,487,355 slaves in 1840, 3,204,313 slaves in 1850, and 3,953,760 in 1860.In Florida, there were 25,717 in 1840, 39,310 in 1850, and 61,745 in 1860. I decided to use…
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Research Note.
Researching the life of Rachel Flowers is more difficult than I initially thought. It is quite a headache, a good, yet frustrating headache. Searching for a person born at the turn of the twentieth century, a black person, a black woman, holds many limitations. I truly hope to find a family member, one of her…
Diary of a Historian 