Sometimes maps make history
Thursday, May 12th, 2011 07:27 pmI thought How a Map Divided Virginia was really well done. I had already known that West Virgnia split from Virgina early on in the Civil War because of the slavery issue, but the map and article gives some good context for that.
There's another map/article that shows the prevalence of slavery throughout most of the South called Visualizing Slavery. What I find interesting is that you can see that the counties with the highest slave population form belts. It's really interesting to look at.
Keep in mind, all the numbers for these maps (and that's from the census) were tallied by hand, then the maps were hand drawn and shaded with ink washes before they were reproduced with a printing press. The amount of work that went into them is enormous.
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There's another map/article that shows the prevalence of slavery throughout most of the South called Visualizing Slavery. What I find interesting is that you can see that the counties with the highest slave population form belts. It's really interesting to look at.
Keep in mind, all the numbers for these maps (and that's from the census) were tallied by hand, then the maps were hand drawn and shaded with ink washes before they were reproduced with a printing press. The amount of work that went into them is enormous.
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