{"id":4589,"date":"2010-12-29T20:29:01","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T00:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=4589"},"modified":"2010-12-29T20:34:01","modified_gmt":"2010-12-30T00:34:01","slug":"map-of-slavery-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2010\/12\/29\/map-of-slavery-in-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Map of Slavery in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NYT, <a href=\"http:\/\/flowingdata.com\/2010\/12\/29\/old-map-shows-slavery-in-the-united-states\/\">via Flowing Data<\/a>, brings this map to our attention:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4590\" title=\"Chropleth-map-of-Slavery-in-the-US-575x457\" src=\"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Chropleth-map-of-Slavery-in-the-US-575x457.png\" alt=\"Map of Slavery in the US\" width=\"575\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Chropleth-map-of-Slavery-in-the-US-575x457.png 575w, https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Chropleth-map-of-Slavery-in-the-US-575x457-150x119.png 150w, https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Chropleth-map-of-Slavery-in-the-US-575x457-500x397.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Makes you wonder about all sorts of overlays, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>The NYT <a href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/12\/09\/visualizing-slavery\/\">describes its provenance<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The 1860 Census was the last time the federal government took a count of the South\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s vast slave population. Several months later, the United States Coast Survey\u00e2\u20ac\u201darguably the most important scientific agency in the nation at the time\u00e2\u20ac\u201dissued two maps of slavery that drew on the Census data, the first of Virginia and the second of Southern states as a whole.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And, as always, the map tells you about more than geography:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The map reaffirmed the belief of many in the Union that secession was driven not by a notion of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153state rights,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d but by the defense of a labor system. A table at the lower edge of the map measured each state\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s slave population, and contemporaries would have immediately noticed that this corresponded closely to the order of secession. South Carolina, which led the rebellion, was one of two states which enslaved a majority of its population, a fact starkly represented on the map.<\/p>\n<p>Conversely, the map illustrated the degree to which entire regions\u00e2\u20ac\u201dlike eastern Tennessee and western Virginia\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwere virtually devoid of slavery, and thus potential sources of resistance to secession.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Much credit to Susan Schulten, the author of the NYT piece. \u00c2\u00a0She&#8217;s a history professor at the University of Denver and the author of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Geographical-Imagination-America-1880-1950\/dp\/0226740560\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1289323814&amp;sr=1-1\">The Geographical Imagination in America, 1880-1950<\/a>.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NYT, via Flowing Data, brings this map to our attention: Makes you wonder about all sorts of overlays, doesn&#8217;t it? The NYT describes its provenance: The 1860 Census was the last time the federal government took a count of the South\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s vast slave population. Several months later, the United States Coast Survey\u00e2\u20ac\u201darguably the most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4589"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4592,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4589\/revisions\/4592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}