Category: Slavery
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Social DataViz: How White Supremacy Attempts to Make Slavery and Segregation, “Soooo Long Ago.” (Zerflin)
Source: –, Client Highlight: How White Supremacy Attempts to Make Slavery and Segregation, “Soooo Long Ago.”, Zerflin.com, April 6, 2016, https://zerflin.com/2016/04/06/client-highlight-how-white-supremacy-attempts-to-make-slavery-and-segregation-soooo-long-ago/. Text describing this graphic tattoo is excerpted from the Zerflin.com web site. Back in 2016, Zerflin was commissioned to create a piece of art that gives an account of America’s history with slavery. This […]
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Tableau Fringe Festival – EMEA: SLIDES – How a Data Visualization Influenced the Course of U.S. History
Readers: Last Friday, I was given the opportunity to present at the Tableau Fringe Festival – EMEA. I wanted to share my presentation slides with you and have posted them sequentially in this blog post. I want to thank the #TFFEMEA team for providing me this opportunity and for providing 12 hours of pure bliss content […]
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Social DataViz: Modern Slavery Around The World (The Economist)
Forced labor persists around the world, particularly for domestic workers. In 1981, Mauritania became the last country in the world to abolish slavery. Even though forced labor is now banned around the world, new reports from the International Labor Organisation (ILO), International Organisation for Migration and the Walk Free Foundation finds that the practice remains […]
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DataViz: Evil and it’s consequences don’t end overnight
Kevin Grevioux, President of Darkstorm Comics, posted this on Facebook. It visually and simply shows us that we still have a ways to go. The title of this post was Kevin’s message with this data visualization.
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DataViz History: The Slave-Ship Chart That Kindled The Abolitionist Movement, 1788
In 1789, 7,000 copies of the print of the slave ship ‘Brookes’ were printed by the Quaker printer James Phillips. Showing sections of the ship and the inhumane way in which slaves were stowed, this drawing and variations on it became one of the most iconic and shocking images of the movement. The diagram above, […]
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