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Subject: Re: USCGS 1860 slave map
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 09:28:38 -0500
From: Rich Green <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>
I've got it. Would you like me to place it online so you can download it?
Rich Green
Historic Archaeological Research
4338 Hadley Court
West Lafayette, IN 47906
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From: "Angie Cope" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 9:04 AM
Subject: USCGS 1860 slave map
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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
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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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> "There is always hope."
> My fave: http://www.washington.edu/cambots/camera1_l.gif
> There's no place like: 34N 8' 25.40", 117W 58'5.36"
> if you can't be at: 48N 6' 59.9" 122W 59' 54.2"
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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
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>> Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
>> Caveats: NONE
>>
>> 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
>> 7701 Telegraph Road
>> Alexandria, VA 22315
>> (703) 428-9206
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>>
>>
>>
>> Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
>> Caveats: NONE
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