Mapping Conflict during the Era of the Slave Trade:

Schema for a Spatial Statistical Model and Digital Archive of Enforced Migrations in Pre-Colonial Africa

Henry Lovejoy (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

36 Seiten

2022
EB-Verlag
978-3-86893-393-2 (ISBN)

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Labelled a crime against humanity by the United Nations in 2011, the slave trade and its legacy of bondage unfortunately continue to shape modern society through racism, discrimination, and unconscious bias. For those who were silenced, and for their descendants, there is little reconciliation. Without knowing their individual stories – where they came from, where they were taken – this part of human history remains a generalized story of mass atrocity, lacking details about the experiences of enslaved human beings. While historians have amassed data for over 12.5 million people involved in the Atlantic slave trade between 1500 and 1867, we have not been able to piece together enforced population movements from specific African places inland to slave ships at the coast. By applying methods from GIScience and spatial statistics, it is possible to learn about global migrations resulting from slavery within pre-colonial Africa. By extracting spatial data from primary and secondary sources, it is possible to design a spatial data repository and digital archive of pre-colonial African places with instances of conflict to operate on a temporal scale with Geographic Information Systems (GIS).

Erscheinungsdatum	01.04.2025
Reihe/Serie	JOSEPH C. MILLER MEMORIAL LECTURES SERIES ; 12
Verlagsort	Berlin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	210 x 148 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik
Schlagworte	Afrika • GIS-Methode • Migration Sklaven
ISBN-10	3-86893-393-X / 386893393X
ISBN-13	978-3-86893-393-2 / 9783868933932
Zustand	Neuware