Saturday, November 22, 2008

Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin
So I wanted to be able to show my students how slavery spread, especially after the invention of the cotton gin. The map above is what I found. You can change the dates and watch the increase of the slave population even after legal importation of them had stopped. Speaking of Whitney, here is a nice flash image of how the cotton gin works.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Interesting maps. several years ago
my GIS students at Jordan high School in the LAUSD created projects around the theme Census 1860. You can see the project and maps here:
http://www.hmsgis.multimedialearning.org/

then go that page go here:
1860 USA: ANALYSIS OF AN HISTORICAL GIS HIGH SCHOOL PROJECT
Word Doc (2.2 MB) | PDF (1.4 MB) | Student Maps

Herschel Sarnoff
http://multimedialearning.org/index.php