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by gol706 3191 days ago
I did an independent study back in college to make maps like these. At the time there was a CD-ROM floating around with a database containing all of this data. It must have been an amazing amount of work to compile that database from the shipping records. As impersonal as numbers can be, work like this really helps you wrap your mind around the magnitude of the slave trade and how it shaped the Americas.