The Geography of Slavery in America

H How slavery flourished in the United States in charts and maps

See 400 years of data tracking the rise and fall of the slave trade.

M Most slave shipwrecks have been overlooked—until now

400 years after slavery began in the United States, black scuba divers are searching for ships that carried enslaved Africans to the Americas.

E Enslaved Africans first arrived in colonial Virginia 400 years ago.

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.

T These Maps Reveal How Slavery Expanded Across the United States | History | Smithsonian

As the hunger for more farmland stretched west, so too did the demand for enslaved labor

A An interactive map of slavery- Mapping the Nation Blog

Mapping the Nation - A Companion Site to Mapping the Nation by Susan Schulten