New Mapping The Transatlantic Slave Ships


Earlier this yr Professor Adam Rothman  and Matt Burdumy of Georgetown University created a serial of heat-maps using information from the Transatlantic Slave Trade Database to visualize 35,000 slaving voyages (from 1500 to 1870).

Their visualization of the Transatlantic Slave Trade Database consists of 3 animated heat-maps showing the cumulative frequency of slave send points of departure, the main ports where slaves were purchased in addition to the main ports where the slaves were sold.

During the animation on each map a cumulative heat-map appears, revealing the designing of slave voyages over time. For example, the map of slave voyage departures reveals how Portugal in addition to Spain's early on authorization of the transatlantic slave merchandise was rapidly overtaken past times the emergence of British slave traders.


Slate has right away besides created a mapped visualization of the Transatlantic Slave Trade Database. Slate's Atlantic Slave Trade inwards Two Minutes animates the actual journeys of the slave send journeys over 315 years.

The map visualizes the scale of the transatlantic slave merchandise over the centuries. It besides reveals the patterns of the merchandise routes used in addition to the destinations of the slave ships. The size of the ships on the map are scaled to stand upward for the release of slaves on board. You tin besides click on each send to notice out which country's flag it sailed nether in addition to to a greater extent than near its endure inwards the slave trade.
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