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Old Maps & New Narratives Digitizing Historical Maps to Analyze New Dimensions of the Atlantic Trade Similar projects are underway elsewhere Recently there has been much important study of the image of Africans in Western

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Old Maps & New Narratives

Digitizing Historical Maps to Analyze New Dimensions of the Atlantic Trade

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Similar projects are underway elsewhere……

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Recently there has been much important study of the image of Africans in “Western Art”….

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Recently there has been much important study of the image of Africans in “Western Art”…. … but what about the images of Africa itself in the history of Western cartography?

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Recently there has been much important study of the image of Africans in “Western Art”…. … but what about the images of Africa itself in the history of Western cartography?

Maps have been said to be the supreme… “Portraits of Power”

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Recently there has been much important study of the image of Africans in “Western Art”…. … but what about the images of Africa itself in the history of Western cartography?

Can Western maps be “decolonized?”

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Individual scholars like Professor Vincent Brown have made impressive use of historical maps in their research

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The Caribbean from Space

https://environmentaljusticetv.wordpress.com/2018/07/20/the- caribbean-from-slavery-to-climate-change/

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Caribbean in Trans-Atlantic System (Triangular Trade)

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1964 1973

Philip Curtin – received a Harvard PhD in 1953 with a dissertation on "Revolution and Decline in Jamaica, 1830-1865" that examined the 19th- century history and economics of Jamaica.

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One important new field in African History is being launched with the close digital examination of the historical texts and their printed maps.

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One important new field in African History is being launched with the close digital examination of the historical texts and their printed maps.

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This can start with individual travel accounts

  • r encyclopedia & compilations ….
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The texts have been studied for quite some time, but only recently have we developed the digital technology to study the maps collaboratively in detail

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It is now possible to digitize & geo-reference hundreds of maps from the slave trade

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It is now possible to digitize & geo-reference hundreds of maps from the slave trade

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It is now possible to digitize & geo-reference hundreds of maps from the slave trade

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It is now possible to digitize & geo-reference hundreds of maps from the slave trade

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It is now possible to digitize & geo-reference hundreds of maps from the slave trade

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It is now possible to digitize & geo-reference hundreds of maps from the slave trade

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It is now possible to digitize & geo-reference hundreds of maps from the slave trade

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It is now possible to digitize & geo-reference hundreds of maps from the slave trade

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It is now possible to digitize & geo-reference hundreds of maps from the slave trade

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The scholarly research and teaching potential with digital technology is enormous. Consider just one point on one map….

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View with a Google Chrome browser at: https://earth.app.goo.gl/jA9r4V

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Elmina Castle was another slaving fort – much larger than Dixcove

https://earth.app.goo.gl/U95X5G

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View with a Google Chrome browser at: https://earth.app.goo.gl/fApo1t

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The Caribbean, the Gambia & Goree in the Atlantic System

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….the first objective of the current project is to digitize and geo-reference hundreds of slave trade maps in order to create an online “virtual archive.”

First things first…

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In the process of creating this archive, there would be extensive spin-off capability developed at HDS… But there is a bigger payoff as well…

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In the process of creating this archive, there would be extensive spin-off capability developed at HDS…

The technologies, techniques and software that Harvard’s “History Design Studio (HDS)” would develop in the process of creating a “virtual map archive” would be “extensible” in virtually all directions for future Harvard faculty and graduate research.

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The digital humanities offer a wide range

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Maps and images can now be shared around the world for scholarly collaboration on new “platforms” for coordinated research on a vast new range of topics….

The digital humanities offer a wide range

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Old Maps & New Narratives

Digitizing Historical Maps to Analyze New Dimensions of the Atlantic Trade