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African American Migration Patterns | Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series
These interactive maps provide a glimpse into the overall patterns of black migration in the United States between 1920 and 2010. One charts the movement of blacks from their states of origin to key destination cities in the North, the other follows the more recent movement in reverse to the South.
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From the Library of Congress.
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ARGO - African-American History
ARGO: American Revolutionary Geographies Online is an exciting new project led by Fred W. Smith Library National Library at George Washington’s Mount Vernon and the Leventhal Map and Education Center at the Boston Public Library. Leveraging new technology and the recent drive by many museums, libraries, and archives to digitize their collections, the portal will collate digitized maps of North America made between 1750 and 1800 into a single user-friendly portal.
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Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (Amazon.com)
by David Eltis and David Richardson
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Freedmen's Bureau Field Offices
This is a map of Field Offices established by the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Land, also known as the Freedmen's Bureau. The record of these offices have been microfilmed by the National Archives.
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Historical Maps Related to the William Still Collection
This 1901 map, contemporary to William and Caroline Still's time, has been overlaid with markers showing the former locations of prominent Philadelphia African-Americans and African-American institutions related to the life and times of William Still and Caroline Still Wiley Anderson. The Seventh Ward of Philadelphia contained the largest population of African-Americans in the city at that time, and was the subject of sociological studies by W.E.B. Du Bois.
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Landscape of Liberation - The African American Geography of Civil War Tennessee
An interactive map showing the landscape of emancipation as it unfolded from 1861 to 1865. Every point on the map is linked to primary documents and images that tell the story of people, places, and events.
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This site is devoted to pointing out the many places that affected the newly freed survivors of slavery. The sites where Freedman’s Bureau offices were located are marked for you. In addition other institutions that served former slaves, are marked – the branches of the Freedman’s Savings Bank, Freedmen Schools, contraband camps, and even the location of battle sites where men who were in the US Colored Troops fought.
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From the Library of Congress, American Colonization Society Collection.
