Mapping The Goal Of Slavery

Visualizing Emancipation is an interactive map exploring the emancipation of 4 meg slaves during the American Civil War. The map allows users to explore as well as discover patterns inwards the halt of southern slavery through the role of contemporary documents as well as principal sources.

The map calls these patterns of emancipation 'event types' as well as Visualizing Emancipation allows y'all to persuasion these patterns inwards whatever combination or on their own. The patterns include emancipation effect types leading from the devastation of slavery inwards law, through state of war machine activity as well as through the impetus as well as actions of enslaved people throughout the U.S.A. South.

As good every bit exploring the map past times the patterns of emancipation y'all tin explore the mapped events using a time-line. The time-line allows y'all to filter the events displayed on the map past times whatever calendar month betwixt 1860 as well as 1865.


To grade the 200th anniversary of the abolition of slavery inwards Great U.K. the BBC created this Abolition of British Slavery - Interactive Map. The map explores how the slave merchandise was organized, the history of resistance to slavery as well as accounts of the divulge of people taken into slavery. The map every bit good includes a mapped trouble concern human relationship of i man's capture past times slave dealers, his life every bit a slave as well as his eventual liberate from slavery.


Tacky's Rebellion, was an uprising of dark African slaves that occurred inwards Jamaica inwards May, June as well as July 1760. The Jamaican Slave Revolt Map tells the even of the revolt, as well as its barbarous suppression past times the British Army.

Using contemporary accounts the map animates through the of import events as well as locations inwards the rebellion as well as subsequent suppression. H5N1 divulge of eighteenth-century maps were used to exercise the terrain map as well as the places map, which degree the base of operations maps for the narration.

The Jamaican Slave Revolt map was created past times Vincent Brown, Professor of History as well as African as well as African-American Studies at Harvard University. Brown says that "the map suggests an declaration most the strategies of the rebels as well as the tactics of counterinsurgency, most the importance of the landscape to the class of the uprising".