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Wireframe: Transatlantic Slave Trade
My project will map and graph the data for the Transatlantic Slave Voyages Database and feature several interactive pieces that will work in tandem to provide context to different time periods and individual voyages. It will consist of a map section, text and filter options, and a timeline.
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Final Project Proposal: Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
J.M.W. Turner’s The Slave Ship, depicting the “Zong Massacre.” -
Networks Analysis
When analyzing the network data for this project, several major trends emerge through filtering our nodes over time. Between 1734 and 1737, the nodes are split into several disparate clusters. At this point, the only nodes that connect multiple clusters are Anna Clement and Aron Oseragighte, who group together several smaller entities into two separate networks. In 1738 and 1739, William Prentop, Jr. ties Anna Clement’s clusters with several others while Aron Oseragighante’s connections expand as well with the addition of Esras, Sr. The largest change occurs in 1740, where Anna Clement is tied to Aron Oseragighte through Ezras Teganderasse. From 1741 to 1745, the additional nodes tie most of the remaining clusters into one of the two main clusters, with Anna Clement being the main bridge between them.
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Matrix Plots and Node-link Diagrams/Dendrograms
Historians looking to analyze trends and connections between several scatterplots and compile clusters will need to utilize both matrix plot graphs and node-link diagrams/dendrograms to represent their datasets. Node-link diagrams, dendrograms, and matrix plot graphs are all ways of compiling smaller samples of data to analyze broad trends.
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Review: Slave Revolt of Jamaica, 1760-1761
Slave Revolt in Jamaica, 1760-1761: A Cartographic Narrative. http://revolt.axismaps.com/map/. Created by Vincent Brown. http://revolt.axismaps.com/. Reviewed February 5, 2019.
Slave Revolt in Jamaica, created by Harvard history professor Vincent Brown, is an animated thematic map that tracks the 1760 slave insurrections in Jamaica. Beginning with the 1760 Tacky’s Revolt, Brown reconstructs the movements of three distinct rebellions that shook the British Atlantic World.
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Review: The Valley of the Shadow
The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War. http://valley.lib.virginia.edu/. Created and archived by Edward L. Ayers, the Virginia Center for Digital History, the Institute of Advanced Technology in the Humanities, and the University of Virginia Library. http://valley.lib.virginia.edu/VoS/usingvalley/background.html. Reviewed February 5, 2019.
The Valley of the Shadow is an online database consisting of thousands of letters, diaries, newspapers, and other records left by the residents of Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania. The project details the lives of hundreds of average citizens between John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry and the end of Reconstruction.