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MapMaker: Transatlantic and Intra-Americas Slave Trade
MapMaker: Transatlantic and Intra-Americas Slave Trade
The transatlantic slave trade forced 12.5 million African people into slavery and set up a gruesome triangle of the trade from Europe to Africa to the Americas built on human trafficking. The story deepens when one explores the forced migration of individuals within the Americas. This map is composed of data from SlaveVoyages and represents enslaved people transported to and from different ports around the world from 1514 to 1866.
Grades
5 - 12+
Subjects
Geography, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Human Geography, Social Studies, Civics, U.S. History, World History, Storytelling
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GIS Specialist
other
Last Updated
May 20, 2022
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