The History Channel's dramatization of Alex Haley's 'Roots: The Saga of an American Family' began end night. The serial presents an historical portrait of American slavery through the floor of ane family.
The History Channel's website for the novel boob tube serial includes an interactive map visualizing the 350 twelvemonth history of the Transatlantic slave trade. Mapping Slave Journeys uses information from the Transatlantic Slave Trade Database to present slave ship journeys across the Atlantic from 1525 to 1865.
The timeline running along the bottom of the map includes a unwrap of interesting stories that the History Channel has picked out from the data, including details almost private ships, ship rebellions as well as the slave ship which Alex Haley believed that his ancestor, Kunta Kinte, had been transported on.
This isn't the start mapped visualization of the Transatlantic Slave Trade Database. Last twelvemonth Slate released the Atlantic Slave Trade inward Two Minutes, a map which animates the journeys of the slave ship journeys over 315 years.
This map visualizes the scale of the transatlantic slave merchandise over the centuries. It besides reveals the patterns of the merchandise routes used as well as the destinations of the slave ships. The size of the ships on the map are scaled to stand upwards for the unwrap of slaves on board. You tin plough over the axe besides click on each ship to detect out nether which country's flag the ship sailed.
Professor Adam Rothman as well as Matt Burdumy of Georgetown University cause got besides created a serial of oestrus maps using information from the Transatlantic Slave Trade Database.. These oestrus maps visualize the most of import key locations inward over 35,000 slaving voyages (from 1500 to 1870).
Their visualization of the Transatlantic Slave Trade Database consists of 3 animated oestrus maps showing the cumulative frequency of slave ship points of departure, the primary ports where slaves were purchased as well as the primary ports where the slaves were sold.
During the animation on each map a cumulative heat-map appears, revealing the designing of slave voyages over time. For example, the map of slave voyage departures reveals how Portugal as well as Spain's early on authorisation of the transatlantic slave merchandise was chop-chop overtaken past times the emergence of British slave traders.
