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This informative piece by Susan Schulten (Associate Professor of United
States history at the University of Denver), posted late last night in
the _New York Times_, begins with a discussion of two thematic maps
produced by the US Coast Survey. The article
(http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/09/visualizing-slavery/?ref=opinion)
begins:
"The 1860 Census was the last time the federal government took a
count of the South's vast slave population. Several months later, in
the summer of 1861, 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."
There is an interactive image posted with this article.
Joel Kovarsky
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