
Johnston, Alexander Keith, 1804-1871
General Map of the United States
Here Johnston distinguished between states important and exporting slaves in order to convey areas of growth and decline in the south.
Mapping the Nation - A Companion Site to Mapping the Nation by Susan Schulten
General Map of the United States
Here Johnston distinguished between states important and exporting slaves in order to convey areas of growth and decline in the south.
The Cotton Kingdom
Atkinson designed this map to convince northerners to embrace the Emancipation Proclamation as a path to a more efficient system of free labor.
First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln
In this iconic portrait, Carpenter carefully reproduced the Coast Survey’s map of slavery in the lower right corner after noticing Lincoln’s attention to it.