Earlier this twelvemonth Professor Adam Rothman and Matt Burdumy of Georgetown University created a serial of heat-maps using information from the Transatlantic Slave Trade Database to visualize 35,000 slaving voyages (from 1500 to 1870).
Their visualization of the Transatlantic Slave Trade Database consists of iii animated heat-maps showing the cumulative frequency of slave shipping points of departure, the top dog ports where slaves were purchased together with the top dog 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 together with Spain's early on authorization of the transatlantic slave merchandise was speedily overtaken past times the emergence of British slave traders.
Slate has at ane time besides created a mapped visualization of the Transatlantic Slave Trade Database. Slate's Atlantic Slave Trade inwards Two Minutes animates the actual journeys of the slave shipping journeys over 315 years.
The map visualizes the scale of the transatlantic slave merchandise over the centuries. It besides reveals the patterns of the merchandise routes used together with the destinations of the slave ships. The size of the ships on the map are scaled to stand upward for the unwrap of slaves on board. You tin besides click on each shipping to honor out which country's flag it sailed nether together with to a greater extent than close its purpose inwards the slave trade.
