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Subject: Re: USCGS 1860 slave map
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 09:13:34 -0500
From: Mary Scott <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>
No problem - I have Acrobat Pro 8
Mary Scott, in cold Ohio
At 09:04 AM 12/14/2010, you wrote:
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>Subject: USCGS 1860 slave map
>Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 03:53:15 -0800
>From: Virginia R Hetrick PhD <[log in to unmask]>
>To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>
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>Has anybody successfully downloaded and opened the 29+MB file of the
>full map from the NYT? I'm curious to know before I start complaining
>as my Acrobat Pro is fully patched to the most current level of v.9.
>
>Thanks for any light anybody is able to shed.
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>Virginia R. Hetrick, here in sunny California
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>>Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 08:28:18 -0600
>>From: Angie Cope <[log in to unmask]>
>>Subject: Visualizing Slavery (UNCLASSIFIED)
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>>Subject: Visualizing Slavery (UNCLASSIFIED)
>>Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 07:39:49 -0600
>>From: Hadden, Robert L AGC <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>
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>> There is an interesting article in the NY Times about a map on
>>slavery done in 1860, "Visualizing Slavery," by SUSAN SCHULTEN, printed on
>>December 9, 2010, on the Opinion page.
>> "The 1860 Census was the last time the federal government took a
>>count of the South's vast slave population. Several months later, the United
>>States Coast Survey-arguably the most important scientific agency in the
>>nation at the time-issued two maps of slavery that drew on the Census data,
>>the first of Virginia and the second of Southern states as a whole. Though
>>many Americans knew that dependence on slave labor varied throughout the
>>South, these maps uniquely captured the complexity of the institution and
>>struck a chord with a public hungry for information about the rebellion.
>> The map uses what was then a new technique in statistical
>>cartography: Each county not only displays its slave population numerically,
>>but is shaded (the darker the shading, the higher the number of slaves) to
>>visualize the concentration of slavery across the region. The counties along
>>the Mississippi River and in coastal South Carolina are almost black, while
>>Kentucky and the Appalachians are nearly white."
>> Read more about it at:
>>http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/09/visualizing-slavery/
>>
>>Lee Hadden
>>
>>R. Lee Hadden, BA, BS, MLS
>>Geospatial Information Library (Map Library)
>>Army Geospatial Center
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>>Alexandria, VA 22315
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