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Historians have used all manner of sources to explore the past. The Emancipation Project uses geographic, numeric, and textual sources in order to gain new vantage points from which to see African American history.

Geographic
Numeric
Textual

The primary sources for these visualizations use nineteenth-century maps and other conceptual drawings to visually express emancipation movement.

These visualizations draw on census data, election returns, and other numeric sources to describe the emancipation era.

 

 

These sources analyze first-hand accounts and visualize contemporary language to illuminate emancipation as a political and cultural experience.

 

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