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HIST 4363: American Slavery

Get started researching topics in the history of American slavery.

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Kristina Claunch
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Mapping American Slavery, 1790-1870

Bill Rankin's American Slavery project, on the website Radical Cartography, seeks to improve upon typical maps of slave-holding by increasing detail about the density of the slave population, while decreasing emphasis on the arbitrary jurisdictional boundaries of county-based data. 

Example Map of American Slavery in 1790

Slave Genealogy Research

 

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