The Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Visualization uses information from the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database to map 35,000 slaving voyages from 1500 to 1870. The visualization essentially consists of 3 animated heat-maps, showing the cumulative frequency of slave ships' points of departure, the main ports where slaves were purchased in addition to the main ports where the slaves were sold.
The animation for each map is started when you lot press the 'Animate' button. As the animation plays a cumulative heat-map appears on the map to let out the blueprint of slave voyages over time. For example, the map of slave voyage departures reveals how Portugal in addition to Spain's early on authority of the transatlantic slave merchandise was chop-chop overtaken past times the emergence of British slave traders.
