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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]>
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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> 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]>
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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
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> R. Lee Hadden, BA, BS, MLS
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