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My apologies if you've seen this already. The full text of this forwarded email follows my signature block. I just found this in my Map Librarians listserve email and, though it's a bit more recent than a lot of maps this list deals with, I think it's important for being an early chloropleth map when such things weren't really "popular". If you pursue the NYT Opinionator link to the full map and are successful at opening it in Acrobat 9, would you please let me know? My fully patched Acrobat Pro at v.9 won't open it which I have already sent an email to the NYT about. v ------------------------------------------------------------- Virginia R. Hetrick, here in sunny California Email: [email protected] "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" ------------------------------------------------------------- > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Visualizing Slavery (UNCLASSIFIED) > Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 07:39:49 -0600 > From: Hadden, Robert L AGC <[email protected]> > To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[email protected]> > > > 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 > [email protected] > > > > Classification: UNCLASSIFIED > Caveats: NONE _______________________________________________ MapHist: E-mail discussion group on the history of cartography hosted by the Faculty of Geosciences, University of Utrecht. The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the University of Utrecht. The University of Utrecht does not take any responsibility for the views of the author. List Information: http://www.maphist.nl Maphist mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.geo.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/maphist
