Insightful New York Times essay by Susan Schulten on the role of maps in the American Civil War. Quoting from essay:
The 1860 Census was the last time the federal government took a count of the South’s vast slave population. Several months later, the United States Coast Survey—arguably the most important scientific agency in the nation at the time—issued two maps of slavery that drew on the Census data, the first of Virginia and the second of Southern states as a whole. Though many Americans knew that dependence on slave labor varied throughout the South, these maps uniquely captured the complexity of the institution and struck a chord with a public hungry for information about the rebellion.
Read full essay @ Visualizing Slavery - NYTimes.com
Also dig:
- "A north-side view of slavery: The refugee: or, The narratives of fugitive slaves in Canada"
- Lincoln's Negro Policy
- Tracing and debating the Slave
- "Forced into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream" (Lerone Bennett goes in on Honest Abe)
- "The myth of American diplomacy: national identity and U.S. foreign policy" By Walter L. Hixson
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