-------- Original Message -------- 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 Office: (765) 464-8735 Mobile: (765) 427-4082 www.har-indy.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Angie Cope" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 9:04 AM Subject: USCGS 1860 slave map > -------- Original Message -------- > 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. > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > Virginia R. Hetrick, here in sunny California > Email: [log in to unmask] > "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" > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > >> Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 08:28:18 -0600 >> From: Angie Cope <[log in to unmask]> >> Subject: Visualizing Slavery (UNCLASSIFIED) >> >> -------- Original Message -------- >> 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]> >> >> >> 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 >> [log in to unmask] >> >> >> >> Classification: UNCLASSIFIED >> Caveats: NONE