Roots - The Interactive Map

The History Channel's dramatization of Alex Haley's 'Roots: The Saga of an American Family' began concluding night. The serial presents an historical portrait of American slavery through the even out of ane family.

The History Channel's website for the novel goggle box serial includes an interactive map visualizing the 350 yr history of the Transatlantic slave trade. Mapping Slave Journeys uses information from the Transatlantic Slave Trade Database to present slave ship journeys across the Atlantic from 1525 to 1865.

The timeline running along the bottom of the map includes a expose of interesting stories that the History Channel has picked out from the data, including details close private ships, ship rebellions in addition to the slave ship which Alex Haley believed that his ancestor, Kunta Kinte, had been transported on.


This isn't the kickoff mapped visualization of the Transatlantic Slave Trade Database. Last yr Slate released the Atlantic Slave Trade inward Two Minutes, a map which animates the journeys of the slave ship journeys over 315 years.

This map visualizes the scale of the transatlantic slave merchandise over the centuries. It every bit good reveals the patterns of the merchandise routes used in addition to the destinations of the slave ships. The size of the ships on the map are scaled to correspond the expose of slaves on board. You tin every bit good click on each ship to honor out nether which country's flag the ship sailed.


Professor Adam Rothman in addition to Matt Burdumy of Georgetown University lead keep every bit good created a serial of estrus maps using information from the Transatlantic Slave Trade Database.. These estrus maps visualize the most of import fundamental locations inward over 35,000 slaving voyages (from 1500 to 1870).

Their visualization of the Transatlantic Slave Trade Database consists of 3 animated estrus maps showing the cumulative frequency of slave ship points of departure, the master copy ports where slaves were purchased in addition to the master copy ports where the slaves were sold.

During the animation on each map a cumulative heat-map appears, revealing the designing of slave voyages over time. For example, the map of slave voyage departures reveals how Portugal in addition to Spain's early on potency of the transatlantic slave merchandise was rapidly overtaken yesteryear the emergence of British slave traders.