{"id":42,"date":"2015-06-30T15:54:22","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T19:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/?p=42"},"modified":"2015-09-04T16:08:08","modified_gmt":"2015-09-04T20:08:08","slug":"the-atlantic-slave-trade-in-two-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/2015\/06\/30\/the-atlantic-slave-trade-in-two-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Atlantic Slave Trade in Two Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<script>fsg_json['fsg_post_42'] = [\n{id: 43, image: 'http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/files\/2015\/06\/slate_atlantic_slave_voyages.png', extlink: '', thumb: 'https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/files\/2015\/06\/slate_atlantic_slave_voyages-150x150.png', permalink: '<div class=\"galleria-layeritem\"><a title=\"Permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/2015\/06\/30\/the-atlantic-slave-trade-in-two-minutes\/slate_atlantic_slave_voyages\/#0\"><div class=\"galleria-link-bookmark\"><\/div><\/a><\/div>', layer: '<div class=\"galleria-infolayer\"><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\"><h1>slate_atlantic_slave_voyages<\/h1><\/div><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\"><a title=\"Permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/2015\/06\/30\/the-atlantic-slave-trade-in-two-minutes\/slate_atlantic_slave_voyages\/#0\"><div class=\"galleria-link-bookmark\"><\/div><\/a><\/div><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\"><\/div>'}\n];<\/script>\n<p><a data-postid=\"fsg_post_42\" data-imgid=\"43\" href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/files\/2015\/06\/slate_atlantic_slave_voyages.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-43 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/files\/2015\/06\/slate_atlantic_slave_voyages-300x180.png\" alt=\"slate_atlantic_slave_voyages\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/files\/2015\/06\/slate_atlantic_slave_voyages-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/files\/2015\/06\/slate_atlantic_slave_voyages.png 1012w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Andrew Kahn at <a title=\"Slate.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\">Slate.com<\/a> has created a striking map-based <a title=\"Slate.com: The Atlantic Slave Trade in Two Minutes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/life\/the_history_of_american_slavery\/2015\/06\/animated_interactive_of_the_history_of_the_atlantic_slave_trade.html?wpsrc=s_fb_top\">animated graphic<\/a> describing\u00a0the Atlantic slave trade over 315 years. Slave-carrying ships represented as dots dart across a map of the Atlantic ocean from Africa to North and South America\u00a0(and a few to Europe and South Africa), representing the flow of slaves. By pausing the graphic and clicking on a dot, the viewer can read details about each ship, including the name of the ship, its origin, destination, the number of enslaved people at the start and end of each voyage, and a link <a title=\"The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database\" href=\"http:\/\/slavevoyages.org\/\">slavevoyages.org<\/a>\u00a0for\u00a0more information.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Several trends are noted in the article.\u00a0Different nation-states dominated the Atlantic slave trade at different times,\u00a0bringing captives mostly to their different holdings in the Americas.\u00a0By the end of the\u00a0Atlantic slave trade in the 19th\u00a0century, more than 12.5 million Africans had been enslaved and transported on over 20,000 voyages, with an estimated\u00a02 million\u00a0who did not\u00a0survive the journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Kahn at Slate.com has created a striking map-based animated graphic describing\u00a0the Atlantic slave trade over 315 years. Slave-carrying ships represented as dots dart across a map of the Atlantic ocean from Africa to North and South America\u00a0(and a few &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/2015\/06\/30\/the-atlantic-slave-trade-in-two-minutes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5039,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}