November 21, 2022

To start this activity I wanted to look through both sites first to see which one I would be more comfortable working with and I ultimately went with StoryMapsJS( https://storymap.knightlab.com/ ). Once I made my decision on the site I would use next was picking the formerly enslaved persons autobiography. I chose Frederick Douglass. The reason that I chose Frederick Douglass is because when I was doing topic searches through the autobiography a lot of good information showed up next to locations. With that being the case I read through some of the autobiography and when I found a meaningful event I skimmed around. This is to help me locate any possible location given in the text. If it’s clear where the place is I could easily mark it on the story map. If not then I did a little more digging on the internet to help find a more precise location. After I was about to find the event that I wanted to be in the story maps and found the location I made a quick headline and description to explain what that location meant to Frederick Douglass. Once all of that stuff was done I went to google to find photos for some of the slides. I also used the autobiography cover as the cover image to my story map. That’s pretty much the entire process of how I made my story map. I would say the most challenging part about making this was just the amount of reading before me. That and the changes in the naming schemes of some of the places. There were some places so old the name had changed while some still had the exact same name. The fun part was what you found out after reading and doing research. Here is my story map https://uploads.knightlab.com/storymapjs/facb6b62557ea745acffba762ad5949f/the-life-of-until/index.html