The Geography of Slavery in America
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See 400 years of data tracking the rise and fall of the slave trade.
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400 years after slavery began in the United States, black scuba divers are searching for ships that carried enslaved Africans to the Americas.
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Stolen by Portuguese slave traders, kidnapped by English pirates, and taken far from home, African arrivals to colonial Virginia in 1619 marked the origins of U.S. slavery.
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As the hunger for more farmland stretched west, so too did the demand for enslaved labor
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Mapping the Nation - A Companion Site to Mapping the Nation by Susan Schulten
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