The Coast Survey map of slavery was one of many maps ... This animation shows the free African American population from 1790 to 1860. The data in my maps is drawn from the 1790 to 1860 Censuses ...

During the Age of Enlightenment, anything was thought possible, and for African Americans ... The slave population almost tripled in size between 1790 and 1830. Most slave women had many children ...

The U.S. establishment of the West African nation of Liberia is a case ... The Haitian revolution (1790-1804) overthrowing France sent shockwaves throughout U.S. slaveholding society — for ...

Justin Madron’s map of demographic change in the early American South grapples with the movements of enslaved, free, and Indigenous people after America’s founding. For this Behind the Map ...

According to the African American Trail Project’s website ... and the first state to list no enslaved individuals in its 1790 filing for the inaugural federal census?) Kendra Field, director ...

A rare, hand-drawn 1790 map of Detroit has been discovered in a family home in Ontario. The framed 21-by-40-inch map is now part of the University of Michigan's William L. Clements Library ...