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kentuck

(111,110 posts) Mon Jun 29, 2015, 02:06 PM Jun 2015

Animated interactive map of the slave trade across the Atlantic Ocean up to 1860

315 years. 20,528 voyages. Millions of lives.

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_history_of_american_slavery/2015/06/animated_interactive_of_the_history_of_the_atlantic_slave_trade.html

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Animated interactive map of the slave trade across the Atlantic Ocean up to 1860 (Original Post) kentuck Jun 2015 OP

It should be mentioned many of those heading into the Carribean mmonk Jun 2015 #1

Very interesting. mnhtnbb Jun 2015 #2

Something we tell ourselves we know, but shocking in this format. closeupready Jun 2015 #3

mmonk

(52,589 posts)

1. It should be mentioned many of those heading into the Carribean

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Mon Jun 29, 2015, 02:11 PM

Jun 2015

were then sent North.

mnhtnbb

(31,402 posts)

2. Very interesting.

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Mon Jun 29, 2015, 02:12 PM

Jun 2015

I knew about the Caribbean destination, but didn't realize Brazil was so involved.

closeupready

(29,503 posts)

3. Something we tell ourselves we know, but shocking in this format.

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Mon Jun 29, 2015, 02:29 PM

Jun 2015

Very well done. When you see each blip crossing the screen as a group of people whose mothers and children and siblings are violently ripped from their lives and who are then subjugated into forced, unpaid labor in order to help build the New World ... each blip.

And the slideshow stops at 1860, of course, human slavery continued, and continues to thrive today.

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