Timelapse of transatlantic slave trade, by individual vessel movement

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The shipping industry has become well versed in using AIS and other data sets to track global vessel movements. However, none are anything like as profoundly moving as this – a timelapse of all vessels that operated the vile slave trade from its inception around 1520 to its culmination in 1866 – largely out of west Africa and to what was then known as the New World. It is the result of decades of research in libraries and archives around ...