New Roots - The Interactive Map


The History Channel's dramatization of Alex Haley's 'Roots: The Saga of an American Family' began final night. The serial presents an historical portrait of American slavery through the storey of i family.

The History Channel's website for the novel telly serial includes an interactive map visualizing the 350 twelvemonth history of the Transatlantic slave trade. Mapping Slave Journeys uses information from the Transatlantic Slave Trade Database to present slave ship journeys across the Atlantic from 1525 to 1865.

The timeline running along the bottom of the map includes a release of interesting stories that the History Channel has picked out from the data, including details most private ships, ship rebellions too the slave ship which Alex Haley believed that his ancestor, Kunta Kinte, had been transported on.


This isn't the showtime mapped visualization of the Transatlantic Slave Trade Database. Last twelvemonth Slate released the Atlantic Slave Trade inward Two Minutes, a map which animates the journeys of the slave ship journeys over 315 years.

This map visualizes the scale of the transatlantic slave merchandise over the centuries. It equally good reveals the patterns of the merchandise routes used too 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 equally good click on each ship to uncovering out nether which country's flag the ship sailed.


Professor Adam Rothman too Matt Burdumy of Georgetown University lead keep equally good created a serial of oestrus maps using information from the Transatlantic Slave Trade Database.. These oestrus maps visualize the most of import cardinal locations inward over 35,000 slaving voyages (from 1500 to 1870).

Their visualization of the Transatlantic Slave Trade Database consists of iii animated oestrus maps showing the cumulative frequency of slave ship points of departure, the main ports where slaves were purchased too the main ports where the slaves were sold.

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