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Map showing the concentration of enslaved people in the South, 1860.

Map showing the distribution of the enslaved population of the southern states of the United States, compiled from the Census of 1860, E. Hergesheimer (cartographer), Th. Leonhardt (engraver), 1861, courtesy of the Library of Congress. Map showing the distribution of the enslaved population of the southern states of the United States, compiled from the Census of 1860, E. Hergesheimer (cartographer), Th. Leonhardt (engraver), 1861, courtesy of the Library of Congress. Though only around 470,000 enslaved Africans were sent to North American through the trans-Atlantic slave trade, by 1860, over four million African Americans lived in bondage in the United States.

Map showing the raw cotton trade between the American South and Great Britain in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, courtesy of Revealing Histories: Remembering Slavery.

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Map Video for Emma Harvin integrated Sumter High School, Sumter, South Carolina in 1971.

Emma Harvin_SHTDI Map.mp4

Map Video for Millicent Brown integrated Rivers High School in Charleston, South Carolina in 1963.

Millicent Brown__SHTDI Map.mp4

Map Video for Ruth Carter and her siblings integrated their local schools in the Drew School District in Drew, Mississippi in 1965.

Ruth Carter_SHTDI Map.mp4

Map video of Theodore Adams was one of the first Black students to integrate Orangburg High School, Orangeburg, South Carolina in 1964.

Theodore Adams_SHTDI Map.mp4

Mapped locations of Anglican churches between 1706-1725, created by Kiby Kimberly Pyszka, 2012.

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Marchands d'esclaves de Gorée (Slave traders of Gorée), Jacques Grassat de Saint Sauveur, Senegal, 1796.

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Marcher holding a Denmark Vesey sign, photograph by Mary Battle, September 5, 2015, Charleston, South Carolina.

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